Why Chemistry at LTU? 

As a undergraduate student in chemistry at Lawrence Tech, you will receive individual attention from all the faculty in your discipline. In you junior and senior years, you will rarely be in a class of more than ten students. Each professor will know you by face and by name, long before you graduate.

There are no graduate student teaching assistants in chemistry. All of your laboratory courses will be supervised by a member of the teaching faculty. Adjunct faculty rarely teach in the advanced courses, and then only when they bring a special expertise to the course. You will always be advised by the chair of the department or by a director or coordinator of your particular program.

The university is committed to providing the department and its students with the advanced instrumentation {link} that they are likely to use in their future careers. All the instrumentation is available for undergraduate use and is often introduced at Lawrence Tech far earlier than at other institutions. For instance, fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy are part of the freshman year chemistry experience.

In your later years, you can choose to earn credit in industry or other outside laboratories through our Co-op and Internship {link} programs. Opportunities to do research with various faculty members also exist.

A chemistry education at Lawrence Tech includes all the fundamental theory a student will need either in industry or in pursuing postgraduate studies. However, the hallmark of our programs is their laboratory focus. Laboratory training at Lawrence Tech greatly exceeds the minimum standards of the American Chemical Society and is far more extensive than that offered at many of the most prestigious institutions in the country. As a consequence, chemistry graduates from Lawrence Tech can contribute to their employers objectives from the first day of hire.