Chemistry

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Early Career Income

$83,746

Lifetime Income

$5.05M

Unemployment rate

2.6%

Female share

41.9%

Occupation concentration

49.7%

in top 10 occupations

Remote work share

18.1%

% who double-major

22.5%

BA Graduates from 2024

12,422

-4.9% vs 2023

How Chemistry compares

Ranked against every other major nationally.

80th

percentile

Lifetime income

Higher than 80% of majors

53rd

percentile

Unemployment

Lower unemployment than 53% of majors

62nd

percentile

Occupation concentration

More concentrated than 62% of majors

Top occupations

See the Occupations and Industries tabs for full breakdowns, Double Majors for the most common second fields of degree, and Earnings for the trajectory by age, and Trends for degree production over time.

Degree titles included in this major

These detailed majors are included in the statistics for Chemistry.

Chemistry, General
Analytical Chemistry
Inorganic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Physical Chemistry
Polymer Chemistry
Chemical Physics
Environmental Chemistry
Forensic Chemistry
Theoretical Chemistry
Cheminformatics/Chemistry Informatics
Chemistry, Other

Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology