Workforce success
Graduates with a major in chemistry or biochemistry and molecular biology are attractive
to employers due to their abilities
in the following areas:
- Summarizing research finds
- Attending to details
- Analyzing data
- Developing theories
- Identifying relationships between problems and solutions
- Remaining objective
- Utilizing formulae
- Designing experiments
- Collaboration
- Processing data
- Solving quantitative problems
- Sampling for surveys
- Using laboratory equipment
- Maintaining precision and accuracy
- Writing clearly
- Explaining complex ideas for technical and nontechnical audiences
- Organizing and reporting data
- Designing charts/graphs
- Reporting results and conclusions orally in various written formats
Career Prospects
Chemistry and biochemistry and molecular biology majors develop both general and technical skills applicable to a wide range of careers.
- Laboratory manager
- Hospital administrator
- Information systems manager
- Bioinformatics researcher
- Pharmaceutical research chemist
- Patent lawyer
- Physician
- Water works supervisor
- Federal Drug Administration inspector
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration enforcement agent
- Environmental risk assessor
- Art conservator
- Veterinarian
- Toxicologist
- Nurse-anesthetist
- Pathologist
- Medical examiner
- Serologist
- Flavorist
- Chemical engineer
- Hazardous materials manager
- College instructor
- Science teacher, K-12
- Scientific editor / writer
- Museum education coordinator