Chemistry at Wofford College

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

Wofford is located in Spartanburg, South Carolina and approximately 1,764 students attend the school each year. Of the 493 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Wofford College in 2021, 16 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.

Wofford Chemistry Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry

Wofford Chemistry Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the chemistry progam at Wofford compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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 Wofford 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
Best Chemistry Schools	30
Most Focused Chemistry Schools	37
Best Value Chemistry Bachelor’s Degree Schools	196
Best Value Chemistry Schools	207
Most Popular Chemistry Schools	331

Earnings of Wofford Chemistry Graduates

The median salary of chemistry students who receive their bachelor's degree at Wofford is $34,920. This is less than $37,104, which is the national average of all chemistry majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Chemistry Student Demographics at Wofford

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

Wofford Chemistry Bachelor’s Program

Of the 16 chemistry students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Wofford, about 44% were men and 56% were women.

About 81% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in chemistry at Wofford are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	13
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Wofford 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 SC, the home state for Wofford College.

Occupation	Jobs in SC	Average Salary in SC
High School Teachers	15,310	$54,400
Chemists	1,450	$75,960
Natural Sciences Managers	530	$91,270
Chemistry Professors	250	$72,970

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 PegasusRacer28 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.