Chemistry is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #11 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in North Carolina to determine which ones were the best for chemistry students pursuing a doctor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 84 doctor's degrees in chemistry to qualified students.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on chemistry students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of chemistry students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt chemistry students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized chemistry related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for chemistry students working on their doctor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Chemistry Doctor's Degree Schools in North Carolina ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Chemistry in North Carolina
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in chemistry.
Top North Carolina Schools for a Doctorate in Chemistry
Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in chemistry needs to look into University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. UNC Chapel Hill is a very large public university located in the small city of Chapel Hill.
Doctorate graduates who receive their degree from the chemistry program make about $62,634 in the first couple years of their career.
It is hard to beat North Carolina State University if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in chemistry. NC State is a very large public university located in the city of Raleigh.
Chemistry doctor's degree recipients from North Carolina State University earn a boost of about $9,751 above the typical earnings of chemistry graduates.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
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