Chemistry at Spelman College

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

Spelman is located in Atlanta, Georgia and has a total student population of 2,207. Of the 485 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Spelman 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.

Spelman Chemistry Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry

Spelman Chemistry Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The chemistry major at Spelman 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	98
Most Popular Chemistry Bachelor’s Degree Schools	411
Most Popular Chemistry Schools	488

Chemistry Student Demographics at Spelman

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

Spelman Chemistry Bachelor’s Program

Of the 10 chemistry students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Spelman, about 0% were men and 100% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 55% 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 Spelman College with a bachelor's in chemistry.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	9
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	0
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Spelman 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 GA, the home state for Spelman College.

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
High School Teachers	27,620	$58,050
Environmental Scientists and Specialists	1,300	$72,860
Chemists	1,270	$83,240
Forensic Science Technicians	480	$50,600
Chemistry Professors	300	$96,420

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 Energy.gov under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.