We graduate between twenty and twenty-five bachelors degree chemistry majors each year, and this number puts us in the top fifteen percent of all of the colleges and universities offering bachelors degrees in chemistry in the nation. We also graduate from three to five masters degree students each year. By focusing on undergraduate and masters students, we have built a very successful chemistry program that is large enough to provide special equipment and opportunities, but small enough to focus on individual students. Our graduates have been very successful. They have obtained positions of responsibility in local, regional, and national companies or agencies that employ chemists.
Many graduates are successful professionals in education, chemistry, dentistry, or medicine.
We have graduates teaching and practicing locally and in many states of the nation. A number of our bachelors and masters graduates have gone on to prestigious Ph.D. programs such as those at the University of Illinois, MIT, the University of Wisconsin, Northwestern University, Indiana University, Purdue University, and other universities that focus on doctoral degree students. A special focus and strength of the Ball State Chemistry Department is providing individual research experience to our students. About eighty percent of our students take advantage of the opportunity to do independent research with a faculty mentor. You will find information about the research interests of each faculty member at the faculty portion of our web area.