Chemistry at Lake Forest College

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

Lake Forest is located in Lake Forest, Illinois and has a total student population of 1,583. Of the 449 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Lake Forest College in 2021, 8 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.

Lake Forest Chemistry Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry

Lake Forest Chemistry Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The chemistry major at Lake Forest 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	136
Most Focused Chemistry Schools	153
Most Popular Chemistry Bachelor’s Degree Schools	474
Most Popular Chemistry Schools	548

Chemistry Student Demographics at Lake Forest

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

Lake Forest Chemistry Bachelor’s Program

Of the 8 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Lake Forest in 2020-2021, 50% were men and 50% were women.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	3
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

• 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 IL, the home state for Lake Forest College.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
High School Teachers	43,720	$72,370
Chemists	2,870	$74,770
Natural Sciences Managers	1,950	$118,480
Environmental Scientists and Specialists	1,690	$78,640
Chemistry Professors	1,030	$87,070

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 Eudaimonia86 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.