The Chemistry department has several attractive features:

Our Students:

• Chemistry has between 4-15 graduates every year, ensuring a low student/faculty ratio.
• Our students are from diverse populations, locations, and countries.
• 50-60% of our students are female.
• Students have the opportunities to perform individual research with faculty members and present their work at regional and national meetings.
• The Applied Study Term program allows students to perform internships.

Curriculum:

• All lectures and lab sections are taught by faculty or full time instructors, not graduate assistants.
• The UIS Chemistry Program is accredited by the American Chemical
  Society.
• We offer a Biochemistry Concentration.
• We offer a Science of the Environment Concentration
• We offer small classes.
• All of our labs are equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation and facilities that are available to students.

Faculty:

• Our faculty include six full-time instructors who each come from across the United States and the world.
• All the faculty members have a terminal degree (Ph.D.) and have attended diverse public and private undergraduate institutions.
• Our faculty are dynamic, student-oriented, and here to help students achieve their ultimate goals.

Goals for our graduates :

A B.S. Chemist from UIS will be characterized as being able to:

• Integrate chemical knowledge
• Perform appropriate laboratory skills
• Communicate scientific information
• Apply the scientific process
• Participate in the chemical profession