Is chemistry a good/employable major in 2025

[Anonymous]

DC is interested in majoring in chem (not pre-med) but I am in a very different field and have no idea.

[Anonymous]

No. Jobs are there but not many

[Anonymous]

DC is a rising 2nd year ChemE major and currently doing summer research/internship on electrochemical batteries. I’d suggest to major in engineering that has lots of chemistry … material science, ChemE, bioE,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC is a rising 2nd year ChemE major and currently doing summer research/internship on electrochemical batteries. I’d suggest to major in engineering that has lots of chemistry … material science, ChemE, bioE,

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC is a rising 2nd year ChemE major and currently doing summer research/internship on electrochemical batteries. I’d suggest to major in engineering that has lots of chemistry … material science, ChemE, bioE,

So clueless. Engineering is totally different than Chem. Just because you see "Chem" in front, that doesn't mean Chem and ChemE are close.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. Jobs are there but not many

OP here. This is what I've read on the bachelor's and masters level. Is it as true on the PhD level?

[Anonymous]

ChemE vs Chem is pretty close. ChemE requires, ochem, pchem, biochem. Then take polymer engineering, computational chemistry. Lots of electives you can take in chemistry or related subjects. Even plasma and nuclear engineering. Material science and even EE take solid state chemistry classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is a rising 2nd year ChemE major and currently doing summer research/internship on electrochemical batteries. I’d suggest to major in engineering that has lots of chemistry … material science, ChemE, bioE,

So clueless. Engineering is totally different than Chem. Just because you see "Chem" in front, that doesn't mean Chem and ChemE are close.

OP again. DC is not particularly interested in engineering (went to a well regarded summer pre college program and did not enjoy it) but eats up chemistry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ChemE vs Chem is pretty close. ChemE requires, ochem, pchem, biochem. Then take polymer engineering, computational chemistry. Lots of electives you can take in chemistry or related subjects. Even plasma and nuclear engineering. Material science and even EE take solid state chemistry classes.

Goodness. Are you a Chem engineer or a chemist? I highly doubt it. Learning all these thru your son?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is a rising 2nd year ChemE major and currently doing summer research/internship on electrochemical batteries. I’d suggest to major in engineering that has lots of chemistry … material science, ChemE, bioE,

So clueless. Engineering is totally different than Chem. Just because you see "Chem" in front, that doesn't mean Chem and ChemE are close.

Yeah this is a common inane response on dcum. Up there with the “just go into Quant” comments whenever someone mentions a math major.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ChemE vs Chem is pretty close. ChemE requires, ochem, pchem, biochem. Then take polymer engineering, computational chemistry. Lots of electives you can take in chemistry or related subjects. Even plasma and nuclear engineering. Material science and even EE take solid state chemistry classes.

Goodness. Are you a Chem engineer or a chemist? I highly doubt it. Learning all these thru your son?

ChemE PhD here post doc in bioinformatics. Then moved to quant finance. Never have worked a day as a ChemE!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. Jobs are there but not many

OP here. This is what I've read on the bachelor's and masters level. Is it as true on the PhD level?

It’s pretty difficult to know whether or not your kid is phd material unless he’s already done P-chem and has published articles in JACS. I’d start with the assumption that he won’t get into a chemistry phd, since the types of jobs are completely different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ChemE vs Chem is pretty close. ChemE requires, ochem, pchem, biochem. Then take polymer engineering, computational chemistry. Lots of electives you can take in chemistry or related subjects. Even plasma and nuclear engineering. Material science and even EE take solid state chemistry classes.

ChemE is nothing like Chemistry. Why are you misinforming op?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. Jobs are there but not many

OP here. This is what I've read on the bachelor's and masters level. Is it as true on the PhD level?

That is a long journey, OP. Not sure if job market is that much better for PhDs.

[Anonymous]

No for all degrees from BS to PhD.