PhD in Chemistry

The Graduate Faculty of Chemistry requires each graduate student to take a minimum of 30 course credits of graduate work beyond the Bachelor s degree, in addition to 15 credits of GRAD 6950, as required by the Graduate School. The Department does encourage extensive work in the major area and at least nine credits in a non-major area (usually chemistry but also areas such as biochemistry, chemical engineering, pharmacy, physics, and mathematics). It is most common for 21-27 course credits to be required beyond the Master s degree, unless a student earns a Master s degree in this Department as a step toward the Ph.D. In the latter case, all graduate credits may count toward the minimum of 30 course credits for the Ph.D., if approved by the advisory committee and the Graduate Records Office.