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Specialties and what they mean

• Analytical chemistry

  Measuring what is in something. The most jobs, the easiest entry, the widest range of employers.

• Organic and medicinal chemistry

  Designing and making molecules. This is drug discovery, and it is doctorate territory.

• Materials chemistry

  Batteries, polymers, coatings and semiconductors. Currently some of the best funded work in the country.

• Computational chemistry

  Simulating molecules instead of making them. Heavy programming, growing fast.

• Forensic chemistry

  Crime lab work for state and federal agencies. Stable, public sector pay, and you testify.