<p>I am interested in this career path but would like to learn more. What is the general track to becoming a medicinal chemist? Undergraduate? Graduate? What schools offer programs? Undergraduate? Graduate? And what is the job outlook like?</p>
<p>Go for finance, and hire a chemist for 15 dollars an hour (that’s what they make anyways) to tell you about this.</p>
<p>Sorry, but the pharma bubble has burst BIG time. I was formerly employed doing med chem in industry…stay far far away.</p>
<p>Google Pharma and layoffs and you will get a pretty good clue as to what is going on.
[The</a> Top 10 Pharma Layoffs of 2010 - FiercePharma](<a href=“http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/top-10-pharma-layoffs-2010/2010-12-07]The”>http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/top-10-pharma-layoffs-2010/2010-12-07)</p>
<p>50,000 layoffs in 2010 and there have already been thousands this year. Abbott Labs just announced another 1200 last week.</p>
<p>The pharma industry won’t be recovering anytime soon either. They have very little in their pipelines and it takes 10 years to develop a new drug. They will be offshoring a lot of their science operations to places where they can get Ph. D.'s for $15k. </p>
<p>Pharma = The Titanic. Don’t buy tickets for a ship that is sinking rapidly.</p>