Chemistry at Mount Holyoke College

What traits are you looking for in a chemistry school? To help you decide if Mount Holyoke College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's chemistry program.

Mt. Holyoke is located in South Hadley, Massachusetts and approximately 2,040 students attend the school each year. Of the 628 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College in 2021, 14 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.

Mt. Holyoke Chemistry Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry

Mt. Holyoke Chemistry Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks chemistry programs across the country. The following shows how Mt. Holyoke 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 Mt. Holyoke 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 Schools	112
Most Popular Chemistry Schools	375

Chemistry Student Demographics at Mt. Holyoke

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

Mt. Holyoke Chemistry Bachelor’s Program

Of the 14 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Mt. Holyoke in 2020-2021, 0% were men and 100% were women.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	6
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

• Astronomy & Astrophysics
• 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 MA, the home state for Mount Holyoke College.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
High School Teachers	26,420	$80,020
Natural Sciences Managers	4,040	$183,490
Chemists	2,890	$94,270
Environmental Scientists and Specialists	1,950	$82,580
Chemistry Professors	870	$104,780

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 Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.