Unlike the Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, the regular B.S. degree is not approved by the Committee on Professional Training of the American Chemical Society. A cooperative program is available to students who are Chemistry majors. After the freshman year, the student alternates a semester in school with a semester in a job in the chemical industry. The program normally requires five years and involves a total of four work semesters and eight school semesters. Students are required to have at least a 2.5 average to enter and remain in the program.
Some opportunity exists for students to enter the program later than the end of the freshman year.
Interested students should make application to the head of the department at least one semester in advance of the beginning of the first work period. Further information will be supplied on request. Courses 100 and 110 emphasize organic and biochemistry, and may be used as prerequisite only for 431. It is possible to move from one sequence to another if permission for substitution is obtained in advance. For example, a student who finds a need to complete the 120-130 series after having completed 100 may substitute 100 for 120 with approval of the Department of Chemistry and may then take 130.