Mission
The Department of Chemistry at SUNY Oswego is committed to providing a collegial, supportive, and safe environment for our undergraduate, graduate students and faculty to excel in their learning, teaching, research, and community service.

Our goals are:
1) to provide high quality, current chemistry curricula to majors and non-majors alike;
2) to prepare our majors to graduate with the skills necessary to successfully pursue careers in a variety of chemistry-related disciplines:

-The goal of our B.A. Chemistry program is to prepare those students who wish to enter a professional school (such as medical, dental, optometry, and chiropractic) or who wish to pursue a double major (such as Chemistry-Biology, Chemistry-Computer Science, Chemistry- Education, or Chemistry-Public Justice).

-Our B.S. degrees (Biochemistry and Chemistry) are accredited by the American Chemical Society and include an undergraduate research experience. The goal of these programs is to prepare students who plan to further their education in graduate and professional schools or to have careers as professional industrial chemists and biochemists.

-Our graduate programs (MS and MAT) directly strengthen the undergraduate program in terms of courses, research, and seminars offered. The MAT program’s goal is to prepare chemistry students to teach at NY State’s schools. The goals of the MS program are to expand and strengthen graduate students’ knowledge of chemistry and to provide them with extensive teaching and research experience.