化学系提供文理学院和工程与应用科学学院的学位。文理学院的学生可以选择三种：化学学士学位，化学学士学位和药物化学学士学位。此外，我们与生物科学系合作提供跨部门生物化学学士学位。我们为工程与应用科学学院的学生提供化学学士学位。关于药物化学学士学位，制药行业专注于探索疾病的生物化学并设计或寻找可治愈或改善疾病的药物。生物化学家，有机化学家，生物学家和化学工程师通力合作以实现这一目标。今天雇用的大多数化学家进入了制药行业。药物化学学士学位是化学学位课程，侧重于核心化学，生物化学和分子生物学，为学生在该领域的职业发
The Department of Chemistry offers degrees in both the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Students in the College of Arts and Sciences have three options: the B. S. in Chemistry, the B. A. in Chemistry, and the B. S. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry. In addition we offer an interdepartmental B. S. in Biochemistry in collaboration with the Department of Biological Sciences. For students in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences we offer the B. S. in Chemistry. With regard to the B.S. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, the pharmaceutical industry is focused on exploring the biochemistry of disease and designing or finding drugs to cure or ameliorate disease. Biochemists, organic chemists, biologists, and chemical engineers collaborate to achieve this end. The majority of chemists hired today go into the pharmaceutical industry. The B.S. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry is a chemistry degree option which focuses on core chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular biology to prepare students for careers in this field. Since it is a highly interdisciplinary field it requires the breadth of knowledge offered by this degree program. In the College of Arts and Sciences, the traditional degree certified by the American Chemical Society is offered, the B. S. degree in the College of Engineering is the ACS certified degree and is identical in terms of degree program requirements. All B. S. programs have a Common Chemistry Core and similar collateral science requirements. These programs are pre-professional in nature, and students planning to attend graduate school in chemistry or an allied science should elect the B. S. program in the college to which they have been admitted. The traditional B. A. Program in the College of Arts and Sciences is not a pre-professional program and may be elected by students who do not plan to do graduate work in chemistry or allied sciences but who desire a stronger background in chemistry than is provided by a chemistry minor.