What career options are enhanced by an M.S. degree in Chemistry?
With a M.S. degree in chemistry, students find that they become more competitive in their careers and obtain the key to a broader choice of job positions. For example, upon graduation with a B.S. degree in chemistry, students are generally suited for jobs at the entrance level primarily for technical work. Most times they begin working for a supervisor who tells them what to do, and many times how to do it. There is thus little job independence. Generally, only after years of experience does this situation change for B.S. degree chemists and only with time and effort do they “climb the ladder”. An advanced degree in chemistry gives individuals more latitude in the workplace earlier in their careers. During graduate education in chemistry, students learn to approach research problems, which are often problems from the real world, from a better perspective and considerably more independently than they were able before they began their advanced education. In the workplace those types of s
