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Asked by anon-334943 on 30 Sep 2022.
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Kieran O'Sullivan answered on 30 Sep 2022:
Plastics manufacture is one obvious route, but also any science degree has pretty transferrable skills to go into many fields. We’d love you to stay in STEM if you can though as that’s where the demand is across industry as we sometimes really struggle to attract new talent; and where there’s high demand, and low supply in theory high wages can be offered (depending on the industry).
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Hugh Birkmyre answered on 30 Sep 2022:
The main areas I can think of are:
Working in industry. This is what I do, it adds £18 billion a year to the UK economy and employs over 150,000 people.
Academia – so being a researcher or professor at a university. 90 UK universities are in the best of the world – four in the top 10.
Teaching chemistry.
A graduate programme where you go to work for a company that wants graduates but doesn’t do chemistry. -
Mark McGrady answered on 30 Sep 2022:
Honestly, it really depends on what you’re interested in. Thinking of some of the folks I went through my degree with, there are several now in industrial roles; some are teachers; some used their degree to get into a graduate programme of some sort; and others are now doing something completely different! I had always seen myself going into teaching until I really got into my degree, at which point I realised I enjoyed being in a lab too much. Even in my current role, I use any excuse to pop into the on-site lab! The most important thing is to make sure that a chemistry degree gets you to where you want to go in life.
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Dan Day answered on 3 Oct 2022:
Of all the people I know that did chemistry, people have gone into: research, teaching, patent law, civil service, marketing, finance, legislature, starting their own business, medicine, consultancy, and loads more that I probably can’t remember
A chemistry degree really doesn’t tie you down. There are many desirable, transferrable skills that you pick up including problem-solving and communication so the choice of next step will really be up to you!
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Victoria Bemmer answered on 3 Oct 2022:
There are so many potential career paths with a degree in chemistry. From my degree course I have friends working in industry, teaching, finance and academia. A lot of graduate schemes seem to like chemistry as well.
The royal society of chemistry has information on possible career paths, so it might be worth checking out their webpage as well!
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Jasmine Bone answered on 3 Oct 2022:
As others have said it depends what you’re interested in! I studied chemistry and now work in a mechanical engineering department researching environmental ageing of materials. Some of my friends from Uni who also did chemistry went on to study for a PhD, one has started her own company, others work in industry or in teaching, publishing for scientific journals, environmental analysis, mining, some work for Mars to do food chemistry! Or if you don’t want to stay in science some of my friends are now in banking and finance as the transferable skills you gain in a science degree are amazing.
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Miray Yasar answered on 4 Oct 2022:
During the studies, I highly recommend to join internship program as much as you can do to understand which are in chemistry you would like to be specialised
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Chloe Loveless answered on 4 Oct 2022:
Chemistry, being a subject based degree, will enable you to go into loads of different careers. I stayed in science, however may of my peers are no longer in science and work in other sectors like telecoms, finance. If you enjoy Chemistry than you can go into science, based roles. If you don’t you will learn many transferrable skills during your degree that enables you to work in other areas.
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