<p>Wondering, will I learn about how to make compounds? What reactions are used in things like fuels? How to create certain materials?</p>
<p>I have taken gen chem and organic chem</p>
<p>You will learn about chemical reactions and some basic synthesis in organic chemistry. However most synthesis is taught at upper level or even graduate level organic chemistry.</p>
<p>If you are really interested in generating new compounds I’d steer you more towards chemical engineering which takes the discoveries from chemists and figures out how to efficiently produce the compound on a large industrial scale.</p>
<p>Chemistry is a dying profession and most research is being moved to China and India where cheap third world slaves will toil in labs for 16 hours a day with no Osha or EPA are stopping companies from killing workers or poisoning the environment.</p>
<p>What other job prospects are there? I’m planning on studying Chemistry and I’m aspiring to go on and do a PhD and work on the medicine side (No I’m not really considering medicine as an option).</p>
<p>I have a similar question. I’m interested in going into materials science and engineering, but few schools that fit my other criteria have that specific major. Should I major in chem or physics? I don’t want to major in ChE because the engineering course loads are so heavy whereas sciences have more room for other exploration.</p>
<p>Physics majors appear to do better in the job market than chemistry majors, although mainly because some decent non-physics jobs that are willing to hire “smart people who can handle heavy math or math-like work” are willing to hire them (finance, computer software, some types of engineering), although physics majors would be “second choice” candidates versus those with more directly matched majors.</p>
<p>None of the 57 schools with materials engineering in the ABET accreditation listing are suitable for you? (There are also 160 schools with chemical engineering in the ABET accreditation listing.)</p>
<p>As a job, Chemistry is terrible, but being such a versatile degree there are a million entrepenuerial opportunities. If you’re not content with the career path, then invent something.</p>
<p>There are just as many entrepenuerial opportunities not going to college at all and wasting 4 years and $20k+ on a useless degree. Discoveries in science are made by research groups in academic or industrial labs and the proceeds go to the university or corporation. The actual scientists that discover them will be lucky just to keep their jobs. They will almost certainly never see a cent from it.</p>
<p>The advice to just invent something, or start your own company, or heck just go win the lottery is really not helpful nor an argument to spend the time and money to get a science degree. Heck why not just try narcotics. If you don’t like it you can always just quit.</p>
<p>sschoez is wrong about the industry of Chemistry being outsourced to Asian countries. you can practically say the same about every science field. people have said that my major - Computer Science - is useless because it’s being outsourced anyways. not true. as long as you get good grades and make extracurricular use of your field, i.e research and internships, and you don’t forgo the ACS option, you’ll be considered a competitive candidate in your field. just wanted to put it out there.</p>
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[[Vanishing</a> science jobs–Josh Bloom - NYPOST.com](<a href=“http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/america_vanishing_science_jobs_V3TzWwPRZsmTh1sGmtVr8L][Vanishing”>America’s vanishing science jobs)</p>
<p>asianshawty, CS is a good field for employment, but chemistry is something very different, and much less desirable.</p>
<p>There is no big and hiring “industry of Chemistry.”</p>
<p>There is, however, a big, growing, and hiring software industry.</p>