B.S. in Chemistry

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Program Distinctives

• Rigorous education from a Christ-centered perspective.
• Personal access to highly accomplished teaching faculty who serve as guides and mentors in and out of the classroom and lab. Our 13-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio keeps classes small and conducive to greater collaboration, research opportunities, and mentorship than you’ll find at most large universities.
• Pre-Health – Prepare for medical school or a health profession by taking courses foundational for success on exams like the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT), Dental Admissions Test (DAT), Graduate Record Exam (GRE), and the Optometry Admissions Test (OAT).
• Extensive research opportunities with state-of-the-art equipment to give you hands-on experience in experimental or computational studies. Recent research projects have been conducted in areas including synthetic chemistry, computational chemistry, analytical chemistry, and biochemistry.
  • While much research happens on campus, many students obtain summer research opportunities at prestigious institutions across the country such as Penn State, the Universities of Pittsburgh, Nebraska, Washington, Duquesne, West Virginia University, and Scripps Research Institute in Florida, among others.
• Internship opportunities in a wide range of laboratory environments.
  • Recently students have interned with PPG Industries, BASF, AdvanSix, Oakwood Labs, Eurofin Laboratories, Rockland Immunochemicals, SAI Medpartners.
• Opportunities to serve as a teaching assistant for lab classes, in which you will learn to prepare reagents and equipment for lab as you work closely with the lab professor.
• Opportunities to attend conferences, such as the annual American Chemical Society National Meeting which faculty attend with selected research students. At conferences like these, you will get to present your research results and gain more clarity for your career path as you consider the possibility of graduate school.
• Extensive STEM facilities with glass-walled laboratories that put science in sight, as well as open, collaborative spaces for research and study.
• Wide array of modern instrumentation — you will be trained on graduate-school-level instruments like our NMR spectrometer and x-ray diffractometer. You will learn these instruments starting freshman year to determine the properties and structures of compounds. All chemistry majors will become experts on the use of these top-level industry instruments, preparing you for a successful career or graduate program. Hands-on experience with current industry instrumentation also prepares you well for internships or research early on in your college experience.
• Vocation-enriching humanities core classes woven into your academic schedule that will cultivate greater empathy, critical thinking, writing and other communication skills, and a well-rounded understanding of the world and your place in it.
• Major-related student groups on campus including the local student chapter of the American Chemical Society.

Career Opportunities & Outcomes

• Career paths: If you’re like 96% of Grove City College graduates, you’ll be ready to compete for employment doing jobs where you
  • Develop novel optical coatings to optimize display performance.
  • Create coatings to ensure the operation of spacecraft orbiting the earth.
  • Monitor emissions from power plants to prevent environmental damage to God’s creation.
  • Use forensic tools to convict criminals to help ensure justice.
  • Sequence DNA to locate genes responsible for disease.
  • Generate new antibody-based biological therapeutics.
• Discover how to detect cancer before it reaches the stage of becoming a tumor. Beyond the chemical industry, our chemistry graduates have obtained positions in patent law, forensic science, private education, business, and ministry.
• You’ll be prepared to pursue admittance into prestigious graduate programs at institutions such as Purdue, Texas A&M, Penn State, University of Pittsburgh, Duquesne, Carnegie Mellon, Notre Dame, Wisconsin, and Washington, as well as Harvard and Stanford. Several of our graduates have gone on to become chemistry professors at colleges and universities around the country.
• With a solid background and clear sense of calling, you are bound to make an impact in your field as a thoughtful problem solver, meticulous scientist, and lifelong learner with a deep sense of wonder for the chemical processes that shape the material world.

Program Specifics

• 75 major credit hours of rigorous undergraduate coursework in the chemical sciences with the freedom to select a concentration (via elective classes) in forensic chemistry, biochemistry, physical chemistry, molecular modeling, or synthetic chemistry. For detailed course descriptions, view the  College Catalog.
  • Chemistry requirements include courses that cover the core disciplines of analytical chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and physical chemistry.

Student & Alumni Stories

Renee Wright '24
B.S. in Chemistry

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