What chemistry grads do in Academia

ucbalumnus
Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:50:52 +0000

Inmotion12:

The typical salary for a chemistry major is somewhere around 30,000-50,000 a year.



Still, that is in the range of most humanities and social studies majors (other than economics and business), which “everyone” knows have poor job and career prospects.

While a frugal person can certainly live on that level of pay, it would not be a good idea to take on a lot of student loan debt to study such a major (chemistry, biology, most humanities and social studies).