The program is designed to match the professional demand for highly skilled personnel in industry and provide specific training in core areas of chemistry as well as specialized expertise. The chemistry department is well equipped with a large number of modern instruments and includes a full-time instrument specialist who trains faculty and students. Upper-level chemistry majors are trained in the use of modern analytical instrumentation currently used in chemical and biochemical industrial laboratories. All chemistry courses and directed electives in physics and mathematics that constitute the chemistry program are carefully integrated to provide students with a strong foundation in the physical sciences.

Students pursuing an ACS-certified BS in chemistry will receive rigorous training in all major disciplines of modern chemistry.? They will be exposed to state-of-the art instrumentation, and will leverage this instrumentation to solve authentic problems in the classroom and in research laboratories working directly with faculty. This degree prepares students for advanced study of chemistry at the doctoral level, and for immediate employment doing scientific work in chemical, pharmaceutical, and allied industries.? This program requires 62-63 credit hours of chemistry and related required electives.