A two-year Masters Degree in Chemistry is available in our department and involves course work in at least four of the following areas of chemistry: analytical, biochemistry, environmental, inorganic, organic, and physical; and independent research project culminating in a written thesis. A non-thesis option is also available. There are active research groups in our department in all of these areas of chemistry. For a description of the areas and specific projects in which our faculty experiment, see a PDF document detailing our Faculty's research (92 kb). We have a small research mentor/graduate student ratio that produces close interaction between our students and faculty. Our department's research facilities are split between the top two floors of the new Chemistry/Forensic Science building.
Click here to read graduate student comments about our graduate program in chemistry.
Teaching assistantships are approximately $9800 full time (20 hours per week) for the two long semesters and approximately $2500 for summer research. Almost all of the students accepted in our graduate program in chemistry are supported by either graduate teaching or research assistanships.
Here are the course descriptions in SHSU graduate program in Chemistry. And here are the online schedules of classes at SHSU.
The SHSU graduate studies site is here and it holds lots of useful information for graduate students.
For a description of the areas in which our faculty experiment see a PDF document detailing our Faculty's research (92 kb).
Here is SHSU's entire graduate catalog and here is important information for graduate students.
You can apply to our graduate program on-line at the www.applytexas.org site.