Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry

Thank you for exploring the possibility of graduate studies at the University of Missouri Department of Chemistry The University of Missouri (MU), located in Columbia, Missouri, was established in 1839 and is the flagship campus of the University of Missouri System. The PhD program in Chemistry at MU has been operating for over 110 years, with the first degrees conferred in 1909.Graduate students in the Department address cutting-edge research problems using state-of-the-art facilities (including NMR, mass spectrometry, materials characterization, X-ray crystallography, etc). There are approximately 25 faculty members in the Department and over 90 graduate students. Research groups in the Department work in the traditional core areas of chemistry including analytical chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, and physical chemistry and also in interdisciplinary fields such as radiochemistry, novel functional materials, medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, astrochemistry, catalysis, archaeometry, nuclear forensics; radiopharmaceuticals, bioimaging, chemical sensors, bioinorganic chemistry, green chemistry, chemistry for sustainable living, environmental chemistry, and surface science. The groundbreaking research in the Department provides an excellent training-ground for our PhD students.