If you choose to study chemistry/biochemistry at Rollins, you will join a group of talented chemistry graduates who, nearly all (90%) during the last decade, choose to pursue graduate training in chemistry, biochemistry, pharmaceutical sciences, or pre-professional training in engineering or the medical sciences, in graduate programs including:
During the last five years, ALL of our chemistry graduates applying were accepted into medical, dental or allied health programs at:
• Miami, Florida, South Florida, Emory, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Penn, Columbia, and others.
Some chemistry graduates interested in engineering and environmental engineering fields have participated in the College's 3-2 Pre-Engineering program. A student may opt to spend three years at Rollins taking courses in the liberal arts and concentrations in one of the sciences or mathematics and then transfer to a cooperating engineering school. After the first year of engineering school, a participating student earns an A.B. degree from Rollins, and after the second year, earns a B.S. degree in engineering. Participating engineering schools include:
• Washington University at St. Louis, Columbia University, and Auburn University
Recent chemistry majors have won national recognition for their undergraduate work at Rollins, such as the Goldwater Scholarship, pre-doctoral fellowships awarded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the National Science Foundation, and La Societe des Professeurs Francais et des Francophones d'Amerique, among others. Among the Department's numerous distinguished alumni is the 1987 Nobel Prize recipient, the late Dr. Donald J. Cram, Professor of Chemistry, University of California at Los Angeles.
Rollins alumni have entered the work force as well-trained, productive professionals as chemists, biochemists and chemical engineers in the chemical, biochemical and pharmaceutical industries, physicians, dentists, veterinarians, pharmacists, high school, college and medical school professors, lawyers, environmental and forensic scientists, and business people.
