本系为那些希望成为专业化学家，工业化学家，教师或希望攻读学位的学生提供美国化学会（ACS）批准的专业培训。该系还为对科学感兴趣并希望获得BS，BA或MS学位进入非化学领域的学生提供完整的背景。该部门为其他部门提供某些服务课程，其主题部分基于化学基础。该学院将努力为这些学生取得成功所需的优质教育。我们的实验室设施配备了所有必要的化学设备。最先进的仪器和化学设置始终可用。实验室相对较小，每个部分最多不超过24人，因此实验室助教始终可用，并能够与学生建立一对一的关系。
The M.S. and Ph.D. programs allow a student to study a wide variety of research topics in the traditional areas of chemistry (Inorganic, Analytical, Organic, and Physical) and related disciplines of Biochemistry, Chemical Education, Environmental Chemistry, Biophysics, and Chemical Biology. The choice of basic and applied projects provides the flexibility to match the interests of virtually all students.Among the areas of active research are: protein folding and intrinsically disordered proteins, metalloenzymes, supramolecular compounds, buckybowls, chemical sensors, scanning electrochemical microscopy, synthesis of oxygen heterocycles, catalysis, retrosynthesis of biologically active natural products, photochemistry and solar energy, next generation organometallic ligands, OLED compounds, nano-materials, computational chemistry of classic organic reactions, computation chemistry of enzymes, drug design and discovery, and higher order nucleic acid chemistry.The mission of the Chemistry Graduate Student Association (CGSA) is to facilitate the academic and professional development of graduate students and promote peer to peer interaction among graduate students and professors in the Department of Chemistry at MSU.