About This Department

The Department of Chemistry at Hunter College ranks among the top 10 programs in the United States in graduating chemistry and biochemistry majors and has the most graduate students and undergraduate students of any school in the City University of New York System. As the largest chemistry department in CUNY with one of the greatest percentages of women faculty in a PhD-granting chemistry department in the country, we are proud of the diversity of our faculty and students, who bring with them the richness of a wide range of backgrounds.