Chemistry Degrees
As a chemist, you understand the ways different elements bond together. Without those bonds, life itself literally falls apart.
NWU Chemistry looks at your success in similar terms. It’s about bonding together the knowledge, experience and skills you need to succeed in the lab as a chemistry major, as well as in research, medicine, engineering or industry.
Our approach joins foundations in chemistry, physics and biology with excellent professors, early exposure to research and experience-based opportunities beyond Nebraska Wesleyan’s campus.
Get amazing results.
Interested in engineering? NWU offers an engineering dual degree program for chemistry majors. Students spend roughly three years at NWU and two with Washington University or UNL, then graduate with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from NWU, and a bachelor's degree in an engineering specialty from the partner school.
How about medicine? An impressive 86 percent of NWU students who take the MCAT exam succeed in entering medical school. Additionally, our students are admitted at high rates to dentistry, pharmacy, physician assistant, and nursing postgraduate programs.
Or research? Roughly half of NWU Chemistry degree graduates go immediately on to graduate research at programs including Northwestern, Iowa State, the University of Michigan and the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine.
But you don’t need to wait for grad school. NWU chemistry degree majors have access to research opportunities both on and off campus, including undergraduate summer research and internships at institutions both in town and across the country.
These students have gone on to present their research at respected national and regional conferences, and our students have earned an impressive array of top awards in recent years including the Goldwater, NSF and NIH postgraduate fellowships.
Chemistry faculty
The NWU Chemistry Department has four full-time professors with expertise including organic, inorganic, analytical and biomedical chemistry. They have earned degrees from Northwestern University, Cornell University and the University of Michigan, and they are willing and eager to share their experience and expertise to help you reach your goals.
