Bachelor's degree · Physical sciences · CIP 40.05
Chemistry: earnings and debt by college
The College Scorecard lists 1,028 colleges that award bachelor's degrees in Chemistry, together awarding 12,584 of these degrees in the most recent year. At the median institution, graduates who received federal aid earn $48,445 one year after finishing and $70,304 five years after finishing (two separate graduating classes). The median institution's graduates leave with $20,500 in federal student loans.
Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard.
Compare Chemistry programs on one chart
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Each dot is one institution's program; branch campuses share their institution's figures and appear as one dot. Dashed lines mark the median for all colleges. Showing 131 of 1,006; programs missing either value are left out (the Scorecard withholds figures for small programs).
Colleges with a bachelor's in Chemistry
| University of Florida Gainesville · Public | FL | 159 | $27,371 | $65,919 | $11,250 |
| University of California-San Diego La Jolla · Public | CA | 157 | $55,576 | $91,369 | $14,266 |
| University of California-Berkeley Berkeley · Public | CA | 135 | $57,704 | $98,220 | $11,000 |
| University of California-Irvine Irvine · Public | CA | 135 | $46,852 | $81,231 | $11,021 |
| University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville · Public | VA | 131 | $39,025 | $68,925 | $17,250 |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign · Public | IL | 111 | $52,720 | $75,339 | $18,365 |
| Emory University Atlanta · Private nonprofit | GA | 109 | n/a | $71,348 | $12,000 |
| The University of Texas at Austin Austin · Public | TX | 104 | $46,239 | $86,424 | $18,291 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill · Public | NC | 100 | $39,779 | $72,554 | $10,205 |
| Stony Brook University Stony Brook · Public | NY | 95 | $42,672 | $80,113 | $20,299 |
| Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond · Public | VA | 91 | $45,179 | $69,729 | $21,636 |
| Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette · Public | IN | 89 | $53,943 | $71,983 | $19,500 |
| CUNY Hunter College New York · Public | NY | 87 | $32,335 | $77,468 | $10,010 |
| University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle · Public | WA | 84 | $54,555 | $77,187 | $12,000 |
| Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe · Public | AZ | 83 | $47,828 | $69,348 | $18,750 |
| University of Chicago Chicago · Private nonprofit | IL | 80 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| University of South Florida Tampa · Public | FL | 76 | $42,184 | $66,173 | $14,375 |
| Florida International University Miami · Public | FL | 75 | $28,003 | $80,445 | $13,548 |
| University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara · Public | CA | 75 | $56,258 | $85,571 | $14,407 |
| Texas A&M University-College Station College Station · Public | TX | 74 | $55,521 | $76,980 | $17,400 |
| Western Carolina University Cullowhee · Public | NC | 74 | $43,593 | $59,330 | $24,502 |
| University of California-Davis Davis · Public | CA | 73 | $51,548 | $80,336 | $11,000 |
| California State Polytechnic University-Pomona Pomona · Public | CA | 72 | $51,496 | $80,258 | $13,750 |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison · Public | WI | 71 | $51,795 | $69,159 | $22,116 |
| University of Missouri-Kansas City Kansas City · Public | MO | 66 | $43,040 | $67,686 | $20,500 |
| University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis · Public | MN | 65 | $51,268 | $81,002 | $15,750 |
| University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles · Public | CA | 63 | $55,575 | $71,084 | $12,700 |
| Appalachian State University Boone · Public | NC | 59 | $48,061 | $67,655 | $23,157 |
| University of California-Riverside Riverside · Public | CA | 59 | $51,428 | $63,035 | $15,603 |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg · Public | VA | 58 | $49,342 | $76,915 | $26,000 |
| Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park · Public | PA | 57 | $48,918 | $71,648 | $24,500 |
| Eastern Kentucky University Richmond · Public | KY | 54 | $45,775 | $55,300 | $25,298 |
| Harvard University Cambridge · Private nonprofit | MA | 54 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh · Public | PA | 54 | $47,559 | $72,093 | $27,000 |
| Sam Houston State University Huntsville · Public | TX | 52 | $44,957 | $63,616 | $27,000 |
| Binghamton University Vestal · Public | NY | 51 | $51,473 | $72,479 | $19,500 |
| North Carolina State University at Raleigh Raleigh · Public | NC | 50 | $52,412 | $76,650 | $22,084 |
| Northern Arizona University Flagstaff · Public | AZ | 49 | $46,365 | $60,248 | $21,434 |
| The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa · Public | AL | 49 | n/a | $67,126 | $26,980 |
| University of Arkansas Fayetteville · Public | AR | 49 | $34,101 | $62,696 | $22,790 |
| University of Cincinnati-Main Campus Cincinnati · Public | OH | 49 | $53,499 | $68,932 | $19,762 |
| Bowling Green State University-Main Campus Bowling Green · Public | OH | 48 | $45,837 | $64,407 | $22,653 |
| William & Mary Williamsburg · Public | VA | 48 | n/a | $82,459 | $18,343 |
| California State University-San Bernardino San Bernardino · Public | CA | 47 | $47,340 | $68,942 | n/a |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham · Public | AL | 47 | $41,212 | $61,753 | $25,000 |
| University of Central Florida Orlando · Public | FL | 47 | $39,690 | $61,667 | $15,081 |
| Georgia State University Atlanta · Public | GA | 46 | $37,418 | $68,531 | $27,000 |
| Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington · Public | IN | 46 | $50,179 | $78,393 | $22,376 |
| Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus · Public | OH | 46 | $51,665 | $69,012 | $20,500 |
| Case Western Reserve University Cleveland · Private nonprofit | OH | 45 | n/a | $65,851 | $22,114 |
Quick facts: Chemistry
- How many colleges offer a bachelor's degree in Chemistry?
- The College Scorecard lists 1,028 colleges that award bachelor's degrees in Chemistry.
- How much do Chemistry graduates earn?
- Across institutions, the median of graduates' median earnings is $48,445 one year after graduation (178 institutions reporting) and $70,304 five years after graduation (238 institutions reporting). These figures cover graduates who received federal aid and are working and not enrolled in school. Branch campuses share their institution's figures, so each institution counts once.
- Where do Chemistry graduates earn the most five years after graduation?
- By reported median earnings five years after graduation: College of the Holy Cross ($112,196), Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College ($106,312), Cornell University ($106,210), Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi ($104,615), and University of California-Berkeley ($98,220).
- How much student debt do Chemistry graduates have?
- The median institution's Chemistry graduates leave with $20,500 in federal student loans (159 institutions reporting). Parent PLUS and private loans are not included.
- Which colleges award the most Chemistry degrees?
- By bachelor's degrees awarded in the most recent year: University of Florida (159), University of California-San Diego (157), University of California-Berkeley (135), University of California-Irvine (135), and University of Virginia-Main Campus (131).
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How these numbers work
Figures cover bachelor's degree programs in Chemistry (CIP code 40.05), as reported in the College Scorecard. Earnings are medians for graduates who received federal aid, measured one and five years after they finished, among those working and not enrolled in school; the one-year and five-year figures describe different graduating classes. Debt is the median federal loan balance at graduation. The Scorecard withholds figures for programs with few graduates, so many smaller programs show n/a. Summary figures are medians across institutions: the Scorecard reports program earnings and debt for a whole institution, so branch campuses share one figure and count once. All figures are from the Scorecard's most recent field-of-study release. More on the data.