Salaries for 2006 bachelor's graduates were 8% higher than they had been for 2004 graduates. For master's graduates, the gain was 9%. And Ph.D. graduates posted a less alarming 8% two-year decline. Starting-salary surveys are based on questionnaires sent to graduates from academic departments with ACS-approved undergraduate chemistry programs, as well as graduates from chemical engineering departments at the same schools.
by Michael Heylin | December 03, 2007
These are among the major findings from surveys of new graduates conducted by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Chemical Society. The surveys also indicate that a higher percentage of physics graduates than chemistry graduates continued with their formal education. And of the graduates who entered the workforce directly, physics graduates apparently had a slight salary advantage over chemists.
by Michael Heylin | May 07, 2007
—ACS launches graduate student organizations “” The American Chemical Society has long had undergraduate student chapters, and several years ago it launched international student chapters. Now, the society is launching graduate student organizations. This initiative helps fill the gap for graduate students who want “to affiliate with ACS in a meaningful way,” says Christian Schiavone, a program specialist with the ACS Graduate and Postdoctoral Scholars Office. To charter with ACS, graduate student organizations must have a faculty adviser who is an ACS member and at least six graduate students who are ACS members. The Graduate Student Organization of Chemistry at Georgetown University will become the first to charter as an ACS graduate student organization (ACS-GSO).
by Linda Wang | March 14, 2020
—Celebrating eccentric chemistry graduation traditions “” Ah, graduation season. The caps and gowns, the seemingly endless ceremonies, the backyard celebrations for family and friends. For Ph.D. chemists, there are different graduation traditions that unite people who spent many—maybe too many—hours in the lab together.
by Andrea Widener | June 03, 2018
—The chemistry graduate school experience “The journey to becoming a Ph.D. can feel like a roller coaster. Here’s how to hang on” Graduate school. For those who have been through the experience, those two words can conjure up a roller coaster of memories and emotions. Because graduate school is such a unique and defining experience, we wanted to trace the journey from beginning to end.
by Linda Wang | September 09, 2018
—Graduate Students Lack Career Advice, Survey Shows “” Graduate students do not think that they are getting adequate career information—especially on nonacademic career paths—from their research advisers, according to recently released results from the 2013 ACS Graduate Student Survey, conducted by the American Chemical Society and supported by the Alfred P.
by Linda Wang | September 15, 2014
For Ph.D. graduates, it was an even more modest 5%. The new data on graduates also quantify the latest step in the vast and ongoing change over the past generation in the makeup of chemistry graduating classes by gender. The number of women bachelor's graduates has risen from 3,028, or 29% of the total, in 1980–81 to 6,291, or 52%, in 2005–06.
by Michael Heylin | August 20, 2007
It makes recommendations for a more student-centric graduate education system to prepare more students for the diversity of STEM careers in the 21st century. ACS continues to increase the involvement and support of graduate students. Since 2012, efforts have also been informed by the ACS Presidential Commission report “Advancing Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences.”
by Jennifer B. Nielson, Chair, ACS Society Committee on Education | October 27, 2018
—The job landscape for new chemistry graduates “Salaries and unemployment rate haven't improved for chemists just out of college” Newly minted bachelor’s degree chemists continue to face high unemployment and flat salaries, according to an annual survey of recent graduates by the American Chemical Society.
by Andrea Widener | September 05, 2016