Chemistry at Yale University

Every chemistry school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the chemistry program at Yale University stacks up to those at other schools.

Yale is located in New Haven, Connecticut and approximately 12,060 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 28 students received their master's degree in chemistry.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Chemistry section at the bottom of this page.

Yale Chemistry Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Chemistry
• Doctorate Degree in Chemistry

Yale Chemistry Rankings

There were 30 students who received their doctoral degrees in chemistry, making the school the #22 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Chemistry Student Demographics at Yale

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

Yale Chemistry Master’s Program

The chemistry program at Yale awarded 28 master's degrees in 2020-2021. About 61% of these degrees went to men with the other 39% going to women.

Of the students who received a chemistry master's degree from Yale, 54% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the chemistry master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 25% of degree recipients. That is 6% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Yale University with a master's in chemistry.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	15
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Geological & Earth Sciences
• General Physical Sciences
• 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 CT, the home state for Yale University.

Occupation	Jobs in CT	Average Salary in CT
High School Teachers	15,410	$76,980
Chemists	1,400	$92,850
Environmental Scientists and Specialists	800	$83,220
Natural Sciences Managers	650	$179,200
Chemistry Professors	360	$81,680

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 Jdbrandt under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.