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CSH 2024 STEM
Program Requirements Quarter Hours
Degree Requirements 48
Total hours required 48

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:

  • Critique the results of experiments and representative problems based on core chemical principles, both orally and in writing.
  • Graphically represent scientific data for a professional audience.
  • Formulate a chemical problem of interest and propose an appropriate solution.
  • Integrate chemical knowledge to create a persuasive and justifiable scientific argument regarding results.
  • State future directions for and impact of their work on the scientific community.

Degree Requirements

Course Requirements

Graduate Common Core (8 courses/32 credit hours)

Course Title Quarter Hours
CHE 494SCIENCE WRITING AND COMMUNICATION4
Select six of the following common core courses:24
INORGANIC STRUCTURE AND REACTIVITY
GROUP THEORY
PROTEIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
ADVANCED TOPICS IN PROTEIN BIOCHEMISTRY
ADVANCED MECHANISTIC ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
ADVANCED SYNTHETIC ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS
MOLECULAR DYNAMICS
Select one of the following special topics courses:4
SPECIAL TOPICS IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
SPECIAL TOPICS IN BIOCHEMISTRY
SPECIAL TOPICS IN INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
SPECIAL TOPICS IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
SPECIAL TOPICS IN PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

Track Requirements

In addition to the 8 courses at 32 credit hours in the Graduate Common Core, Chemistry students must complete the requirements within their chosen track: Thesis Track or Non-Thesis Track.

Track Requirements

Concentrations, tracks and specializations provide focus to the degree. In addition to any degree requirements, students are required to choose one of the following:

Program Graduate Academic Student Handbook

Academic Probation

Students must maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75 to remain in good standing. A student whose cumulative GPA falls below 2.75 will be placed on academic probation.

Academic Dismissal

Students on probation have at most one academic quarter of coursework to raise their cumulative GPA to at least a 2.75. If a student does not, then he/she may be academically dismissed for a violation of satisfactory progress.

All students are expected to adhere to the Code of Student Responsibility as outlined in the Graduate Student Handbook. Any violation of the Code of Student Responsibility is considered very serious and is grounds for probation or dismissal at the discretion of the Chemistry Graduate Committee or Dean of Students.

Conditional Admission

An applicant may be admitted conditionally to the program at the discretion of the Chemistry Graduate Committee for one or more of the following reasons:

  • Undergraduate GPA is less than 2.75 but the student has shown considerable promise in other areas (such as research).
  • The applicant is missing one or two of the required courses but otherwise has met all of the criteria for admission; the applicant will be required to complete the missing coursework either at DePaul or comparable institution as a condition prior to taking graduate courses for which the missing course(s) is(are) prerequisite.

The Chemistry Graduate Committee will consider other circumstances not included in the above list on an individual basis.

Transfer Credit

Up to 12 quarter hours (or semester equivalent) of coursework may be accepted as transfer credit towards the M.S. degree for courses taken at another institution or through another DePaul program that articulate with current courses in the chemistry graduate program. ​Credits applied toward the completion of a degree at DePaul or another institution will not be accepted as transfer credit.​ Written approval must come from graduate program director and associate dean for graduate studies.

Graduation Requirements

Students need a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75 in courses required by the program to be eligible for graduation. 

Graduation with Distinction

Students may graduate “with distinction” by earning a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.75 for coursework applied toward the chemistry graduate program, or on the recommendation of the thesis defense committee.​

Time Limitation

Students pursuing a master's degree must complete all requirements for the master's degree within a maximum of six years from the first term of enrollment in the program.