Career opportunities
Where HÂþ» graduate studies in chemistry can take you
As someone with a graduate degree in chemistry, you are well placed to work in a supervisory position in a lab or research facility, but advanced training in chemistry can lead to employment in many other fields, such as:
- Process chemist in a chemical plant
- Occupational health and safety officer
- Patent lawyer
- Research laboratory chemist
- Forensic laboratory scientist
- Art conservation officer
- Polymer chemist
- Medicinal chemist
- School teacher
- Doctor
- Dentist
- Environmental scientist
- Pulp and paper research scientist
- Agricultural scientist
- University professor
- Geochemist
- Scientific instrument development and service technician
- Metallurgical analyst
- Biotechnologist
Alumni stories
- Where they are now
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Several alumni have supplied the Department of Chemistry with career profiles that illustrate just how diverse the opportunities can be for a graduate with a HÂþ» Chemistry Degree.