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what can you do with a degree in chemistry?

With a bachelor's of science you can get all kinds of jobs.

Anywhere from working in a lab to a school administrator.

4YR science degrees are the best and that is why i'm getting one
 
You can go in to business/ accounting/ finance etc.

As long as the degree is numerate and is a 'science' you are fine to do basically whatever if you want to.

Koing
 
According to a recent CNN (I believe) article, BS Chem. Engineer grads get paid the highest on average. Even higher than us CS and EE guys.
 
Go for Chemical Engineering instead.

It will be worth the effort. I have a friend that graduated last year and was making 25k on an INTERNSHIP that was also paying his school bills for his junior and senior year. He's now working for Pfizer making about 47k a year and having his graduate schooling paid for.
 
Originally posted by: OulOat
According to a recent CNN (I believe) article, BS Chem. Engineer grads get paid the highest on average. Even higher than us CS and EE guys.
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Chemical engineering has very, very little in common with a chemistry degree. Sure, chem eng's take general, organic, and physical chemistry, but the rest of the curriculum is completely distinct. The end product: the chem eng knows enough chemistry to know what chemists are talking about to apply it to processes. Chemical engineering is a lot harder (no offense to any chemists here 😛) and is often considered the hardest major around because of the combination of math, physics, chemistry, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, process control, and its own list of subjects that no other major even considers.

If you're interested in research, a BS in chemistry is probably your best bet outside of graduate school. Chemists are much more likely to get picked for research with only a bachelors degree than any other science/engineering field in my experience. Other than that, I know a few chemists that do quality control testing for food products, paints, et cetera. Lots of lab testing, basically. As others have mentioned, you can get any other BS's job with a chemistry degree as well, since it's just about the hardest one.
 
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