<p>I think he was referring to the BS chem with an MBA as the one that involves economics. It’s surely a route that a lot of people take, and will be better paying…if you’d rather delve on the administrative side of chemistry.</p>
<p>Chemical engineers make bank. There’s tons at my school and they all come out of their BS with 70k+ jobs and a hefty signing bonus. But that’s just too much physics for most people.</p>
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<p>You should really try and find an undergraduate research position in a lab. A PhD in chemistry is not really “school.” You spend your first year taking graduate courses, and that’s usually it. The rest of your years in graduate study will be mainly research and chemistry that you will be doing when you actually go out into the industry. You’ll spend your second year most likely doing research under an advisor, at the end of your second year you will create your own project (your thesis), and then spend the next two years experimenting and working on defending your results. The defense of your findings will be what ultimately earns you your PhD. After your 1st year you’re done with classes and after your 2nd year you’re pretty much independent. Graduate study in the hard sciences is not the same as getting an upper level law or business degree (where you take classes throughout your stay).</p>
<p>Although if you want to simply be a teacher (not a professor), then getting a PhD would be overkill.</p>