Chemistry at Hamilton College

If you are interested in studying chemistry, you may want to check out the program at Hamilton College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Hamilton is located in Clinton, New York and approximately 1,902 students attend the school each year. Of the 597 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Hamilton College in 2021, 10 of them were chemistry majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Chemistry section at the bottom of this page.

Hamilton Chemistry Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry

Hamilton Chemistry Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks chemistry programs across the country. The following shows how Hamilton performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The chemistry major at Hamilton is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Chemistry. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Chemistry Bachelor’s Degree Schools	143
Most Focused Chemistry Schools	156
Most Popular Chemistry Bachelor’s Degree Schools	411

Chemistry Student Demographics at Hamilton

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the chemistry majors at Hamilton College.

Hamilton Chemistry Bachelor’s Program

Of the 10 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Hamilton in 2020-2021, 50% were men and 50% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 15% more racial-ethnic minorities in its chemistry bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Hamilton College with a bachelor's in chemistry.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Hamilton also has a doctoral program available in chemistry. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Geological & Earth Sciences
• Physics

Careers That Chemistry Grads May Go Into

A degree in chemistry can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for Hamilton College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
High School Teachers	74,830	$85,300
Environmental Scientists and Specialists	4,400	$79,340
Chemists	3,360	$85,590
Chemistry Professors	2,270	$102,260
Physics Postsecondary Professors	1,430	$117,370

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Lvklock under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.