2024 Best Colleges for Forensic Chemistry

SUMMARY

Studying Forensic Chemistry is not only a valuable choice, but often a critical first step for students planning to enter a career as an analytical forensic chemist, a crime scene investigator, or a forensic detective. In fact, forensic chemistry is a ​unique major ranking as the 355th most popular degree. Last academic year, there were 164 forensic chemistry degrees conferred. In-state tuition for forensic chemistry at private colleges is, on average, 4.4 times more pricey than their public fellows.

With just 30 universities offering this degree you could have limited options as to the institutions you can choose from. If you're hoping to surround yourself with other forensic chemistry students, look at colleges in Arizona which have more students admitted to forensic chemistry than any other state. Zooming out, the best region to study forensic chemistry is in the Southeast region with Eastern Kentucky University, University of Mississippi, and Western Carolina University best representing the region. Interestingly, our pick for the top conference to study forensic chemistry is the Pacific-12 Conference with Arizona State University-West representing the conference. From our comprehensive list of the best colleges, our choice for the best school for forensic chemistry is Saint Anselm College.

The objectively 'best' school might not actually be the best school for every student. There might be a bunch of angels to think about when selecting college. Features like campus amenities, transportation services, and food could alter one's feelings on which school to attend. Here at authority.org, we evaluated the pros and cons for you. If, for example, you want to know which forensic chemistry school has the top campus, the answer is University of Mississippi. If, for example, you are primarily interested in which college has the top campus, we have an entire list dedicated to that. We have carefully pored through student reviews, government databases, professor reviews, and more in order to compare all U.S. majors in an unbiased and informative way. You can find our comprehensive list for the schools with the best student life&nbsphere and our pick for the school with the best student life for forensic chemistry is Saint Anselm College. Are you curious why? Continue reading to learn more about our top selections. Some of our picks just might surprise you.

If price is a major influence in your choice of where you attend college, you might consider avoiding Saint Anselm College. Saint Anselm College&nbspis our most expensive university for forensic chemistry, at least for out of state enrollment. That being said, we have an entire page for the most expensive&nbspschools that might put the cost of Saint Anselm College&nbspinto perspective. Additionally, you may be interested to know that forensic chemistry is the 380th most expensive program in the nation, with an average cost of $17,300. On a broader scale, the most costly state for forensic chemistry on our list is New Hampshire demonstrated with a tuition of $40,500 at Saint Anselm College. Even more broadly, the most costly region of the U.S. for forensic chemistry is unfortunately unavailable due to missing data.

Our cheapest region for forensic chemistry is the Southeast region which is represented by Alabama State University with a cost of $16,656, Eastern Kentucky University with a cost of $19,338, and Western Carolina University with a cost of $5,000. More optimistically, the most affordable school for forensic chemistry is Western Carolina University. Our entire list of the most affordable colleges can be explored here.

In-state students can expect to pay around $9,400 for a degree in forensic chemistry. The cost swells by a lot to an average of $19,200 for an out-of-state public-school student. On that note, our selection for the college representing the best value for forensic chemistry: Saint Anselm College. On this page you can see our comprehensive list on the schools we believe to be the best value&nbspoverall. With that said, this discussion is based on out-of-state tuition costs. The value proposition changes when it comes to in-state tuition, but we do not know in which states any one student has residency.

Earnings for forensic chemistry majors can differ, but within two-years of finishing the degree graduates will often earn in the neighborhood of $48,100. While there can be much variation in earnings; top positions can experience pay up to $84,700. Even straight out of college, the minimum earning opportunities within the forensic chemistry space earn $27,000, which could be worse. The highest earning graduates from forensic chemistry graduated from Arizona State University-West&nbspand if you want to find the schools with all of the highest earning graduates, we have that too.

The overall diversity of forensic chemistry ranks subpar, falling in the 32nd percentile of all majors. The college with the most composite diversity for forensic chemistry is Arizona State University-West&nbspand here you can find our general list of the colleges which have the most diversity. The financial diversity of the Forensic Chemistry major is only within the 66th percentile compared to all other majors. Racial diversity is even less in the 38th percentile. White undergraduates compose the largest share at 65% of scholars majoring in forensic chemistry. Additionally, 78% of scholars pursuing a forensic chemistry major are women.

We have insufficient professors data for forensic chemistry to make the conclusions we normally would have made in this sentence. As we consider information beyond simply rankings we find that the school with the best professors for forensic chemistry is Arizona State University-West. You can find more detail on our evolving ranking methodology of the best overall professors here, as well as many of the top professors in the U.S.

Finally, the hardest college to get into for forensic chemistry is Northern Michigan University. While we think of this list more as a novelty, we have a general page of the hardest colleges to get into. That being said, we do hope you believe that approaching college from context mainly formed from superlatives might create problems. We hope you read our other pages on different colleges and peruse some of our background pages on important things to think about as your college search continues.