Career Paths

While a degree in chemistry provides a solid foundation for medical school and other doctoral programs, students leave Bowie State with the skills to excel in the workplace right after graduation. Graduates will find success in the medical, academic, governmental, private sector, environmental sciences and life sciences industries. Career options include:

• Analytical chemist
• Biochemist
• Biotechnologist
• Botanist
• Chemical engineer
• Crime laboratory analyst
• Crime scene investigator
• Dentist
• Epidemiologist
• Food safety inspector
• Food scientist
• Forensic scientist
• Hydrologist
• Immunologist
• Medical examiner
• Nanotechnologist
• Pathologist
• Pharmacist
• Pharmacologist
• Researcher
• Scientific laboratory technician
• Teacher
• Toxicologist
• Veterinarian
• Zoologist