30 hours

To be admitted to graduate study in Chemistry at the University of Georgia, a student must have earned a bachelor's or master's degree in Chemistry or a closely related field and should have a distinguished undergraduate record. Applications are accepted for Fall semester enrollment. Some special fellowship opportunities such as UGA Graduate School Assistantships and Presidential Fellowships require an application deadline of December 15. All applicants will automatically be considered for these special fellowships upon receipt of a completed application. Therefore, we suggest that the prospective student arrange for his or her application materials to arrive as early as possible. Please contact the Chemistry Graduate Program for additional information about these special fellowship opportunities.

The Departmental Application Completion Deadline is January 31 and this is to guarantee your application will receive full consideration by the Departmental Admissions Committee. We will still review applications after that deadline, but we cannot guarantee full consideration if your application remains incomplete past that date. The contact information for the Department of Chemistry Graduate Program is provided below.

Entrance to the Chemistry Graduate Program requires application and admission to the UGA Graduate School. All requirements of the UGA Graduate School must be met. Please refer to the UGA Graduate School website for this information.

CHEM 9000  (min 6 hrs)

Doctoral Research

1-15

CHEM 9300  (min 3 hrs)

Doctoral Dissertation

1-10

Choose a minimum of 20 credit hour(s) from the following:

CHEM prefix courses numbered 8000 and above

* At the discretion of the advisory committee, two of these courses may be courses other than CHEM courses. Courses must be graded A-F. Only 2 hours of seminars (CHEM 8100, 8120, 8130, 8140, 8150, 8170) may be used to fulfill the 20 hour requirement.

Seminars

Choose 1 course(s) from the following:

CHEM 8100  *

Introductory Graduate Seminar

1

CHEM 8120

Inorganic Chemistry Graduate Seminar

1

CHEM 8130

Organic Chemistry Graduate Seminar

1

CHEM 8140

Physical Chemistry Graduate Seminar

1

CHEM 8150

Analytical Chemistry Graduate Seminar

1

CHEM 8170

Materials Chemistry and Nanoscience Seminar

1

*CHEM 8100 is ONLY open to students in their first semester. Each non-summer semester in residence, each student must enroll in one of the divisional seminars. In two of these semesters, each PhD student must present a seminar (one literature seminar, one research seminar), and each of these seminars must be judged acceptable.

GRSC Courses

GRSC 7001

GradFIRST: First-year Research and Scholarship Training Seminar

1

GRSC 7770

Graduate Teaching Seminar

1-3

*required if selected for graduate teaching assistantships

Select additional courses, as needed, in consultation with an advisor to meet the minimum number of required credit hours for this program.