Academic Chemistry and Biochemistry Departments in the United States

Departmental pages listed here will generally, though not always, provide information about faculty, degrees offered, curriculum, courses offered and general contact information.

For rankings of Ph.D chemistry programs in the U.S., see the U.S. News and World Report rankings for chemistry and biochemistry, last updated in Jan. 2007. Top three rankings are given for chemistry in general and for the specialties of analytical, biochemistry, inorganic, organic, physical and theoretical chemistry. Note that biochemistry is also listed under Biological Sciences, with a different top three (updated in 2007). Geochemistry is listed under Earth Sciences, while chemical physics is listed under Physics as Atomic/Molecular/Optical or Condensed Matter. More extensive and detailed information is availble via a fee-based service.

Additional information about chemistry departments in the USA and Canada may frequently be found in the free, electronic version of the ACS Directory of Graduate Research, available at DGRweb (http://dgr.rints.com/). The most recent version is the 2007 edition, added in Fall 2007. Updates occur every two years; the 1999-2005 editions are also available at the DGR site. Note that information in the DGR is provided voluntarily by the departments themselves, so not all graduate progams in chemistry are listed, and the extent and accuracy of information may vary.

For other information about programs in the U.S. and Canada, see Peterson's Guide to Graduate and Professional Study or Peterson's Guide to Undergraduate Colleges

In the lists below, universities are generally listed according to their official names. Examples and notes:

• Harvard is listed as Harvard University
• Notre Dame is listed as University of Notre Dame
• The principal state universities of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois are listed as Indiana University, Ohio State University and University of Illinois respectively.
• In some cases, there are cross-references. The principal listing for the California State University campus in San Diego is at San Diego State University, but there is a cross-reference from California State University, San Diego.
• If institutions have changed names, I try to provide cross-references from the earlier names, e.g. from California State University, Hayward to its current name, California State University, East Bay. If the name change is minor in terms of alphabetical listing, e.g. from St. Mary's College to St. Mary's University, I don't bother with cross-references.
• Since users may have heard the name of an institution but not seen it in its official form, I have chosen to alphabetize both Saint and St. as Saint, both at the beginning and in the middle of institution names.

This site is the United States component of the International University Chemistry Departments site, maintained by Dr. Michael Barker at the University of Liverpool, a cooperative project to provide lists of academic chemistry departments maintained in their respective host countries.