Bachelor's Degree Recipients

18,183 total bachelor's degrees were conferred by 651 ACS approved institutions
10,766 chemistry
7,417 biochemistry

Gender

Figure 1: Gender distribution for bachelor's degree recipients from 2013-2014 to 2022-2023 academic years. Data were gathered from annual reports and are from ACS approved institutions only (n ranges from 600 to 700 approved programs per year). The gender diversity for bachelor's degree recipients averages to 50.5% men and 49.4% women (note that non-binary data has only been collected since 2019-2020 and is not included in these averages). There has been very little variance away from these averages over the past 10 years.

Bachelor's Degree Recipients in Chemistry and Biochemistry 2022-23

Figure 2: Gender distribution for chemistry and biochemistry bachelor's degree recipients for the 2022-23 academic year. The gender diversity in both majors skews slightly toward those identifying as women with 54.3% women, 45.2% men, and 0.5% non-binary in chemistry and 56.2% women, 43.6% men, and 0.2% non-binary in biochemistry. (N = 651)

Race-Ethnicity: 2022-23 Bachelor's Degree Recipients

Data reported for U.S. citizens and permanent residents.

Figure 3: Race and ethnicity for the 2022-23 bachelor's degree recipients in chemistry and biochemistry. A more thorough description of this bar graph is available in the results section.

Results

Black or African American students made up 9.5% of chemistry graduates and 7.3% of biochemistry graduates.
Asian American students made up 17.7% of chemistry graduates and 20.9% of biochemistry graduates.
Latinx or Hispanic students made up 14.9% of chemistry graduates and 12.7% of biochemistry graduates.
Pacific Islander or Hawaiian Natives made up 0.3% of chemistry graduates and 0.1% of biochemistry graduates.
Native Americans or Alaskan Natives made up 0.4% of chemistry graduates and 0.3% of biochemistry graduates.
Students with two or more races/ethnicities made up 3.3% of chemistry graduates and 4.3% of biochemistry graduates.

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