What education and degree is required to become a color scientist?
At RIT, someone can get M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Color Science and either of those are excellent qualifications to become a color scientist. Such degree programs are rare; in fact RIT’s is the only program in Color Science in the United States. However, there are plenty of color scientists out there who have degrees in other fields and then learned more about color science through their work or research. The students in our graduate programs also come from these various fields with undergraduate degrees in areas such as physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, psychology (perceptual or experimental), cognitive science, computer science, etc.
