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Careers for Graduates with a Degree in Chemistry

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December 3, 2007


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Graduates with a degree in chemistry can tell you that everything you see around you is based on chemical elements. The fact that our world is chemically based also means that there are many careers in which graduates with a degree in chemistry help us to work productively with this environment. Because chemistry is an international common denominator, graduates with a degree in chemistry may pursue careers throughout the United States and abroad in accordance with international laws and personal choice. Many graduates with a degree in chemistry will find that opportunities and salaries increase dramatically with additional graduate study, laboratory experience and specialization. But even graduates with a simple degree in chemistry after four years of college study will find that there are career opportunities available in a wide variety of fields.

Medical and Pharmaceutical Companies Having achieved great success in conquering or controlling diseases like small pox, polio, typhus, leprosy, and yellow fever, medical researchers in the United States continue to track down cures for “killers” still on the loose. The fear of life taking pandemics from hybrids of HIV, Bird Flu or Sars has put many nations on alert and put many graduates with a degree in chemistry to work in important, potentially life saving careers.

Certainly the top discoveries made in the world of medical research today are unlikely to be made by graduates toting a simple bachelor’s degree in chemistry. But around the leading medical researchers with their impressive doctorates are always assembled huge teams of chemists, men and women graduates with degrees in chemistry, who have worked in medical labs tirelessly testing, recording and retesting to narrow the search for cures for cancer, Aids, paralysis, personality disorders, even obesity. For graduates with a degree in chemistry there are real opportunities to use your education in a career that will provide financial stability and the feeling of assisting mankind.

Medical research is carried out on many levels. There are state and federal government programs and institutes, private studies in medical research facilities and many programs sponsored by the medical arm of large universities nationally and world wide. As a graduate with a degree in chemistry, choosing a career in medical research will also likely mean choosing a work environment that suits your personality and choosing a work place that geographically is a good match. For those driven by financial reward, the big money is of course reserved to those with the big resumes. Working in medical research allows you to add experience to your degree in chemistry in your own portfolio and prepare for larger financial compensation as your career unfolds.

Not surprisingly Pharmaceutical companies employ graduates with a degree in chemistry.



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