You want to create more efficient lithium batteries. Or develop life-saving vaccines. Start a line of sustainable cosmetics. Work at one of the many clean-tech companies based in Metro Vancouver, or research your way to a PhD. You haven’t yet … but you can. Whatever your passion is, find a solid path to it here.

GET GOING WITH CHEMISTRY

By learning from, and alongside, internationally recognized researchers, dedicated teaching faculty and skilled staff and technicians, you’ll be able to build the essential scientific foundation and support needed to become a first-class chemist and scientist yourself. A degree in chemistry can lead to many different careers across a wide range of sectors, from medicine to consumer technology, nanotechnology to environmental science, nuclear science to forensics, and more.

Talk to our recruiter, Claire, about how you might get going in Chemistry.

Talk to Claire

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

A leading, contemporary chemical institution that consistently ranks among the top chemistry departments in Canada, with a strong reputation as one of the most multidisciplinary departments in the nation
Tailor your program to your interests with a joint major in Chemistry and Earth Sciences or Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, or a minor in Nuclear Science or Environmental Chemistry.
Access to SFU’s acclaimed 4D LABS, The Centre for High-Throughput Chemical Biology, and TRIUMF, along with other cutting-edge instrumentation in our labs allows for undergraduate and graduate research at the forefront of scientific discovery.
Co-op employers include: Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Canfor Pulp Innovation, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Health Canada, NanoOne Materials, Phyton Biotech, Xenon Pharmaceuticals

Making passions connect with purpose in science

You’re not improving EV batteries yet…

Start With a major in

Chemistry

And a co-op placement at

Polymer Engineering

Find your purpose as a(n)

Formulation chemist, patent examiner, quality control analyst, technical writer

You’re not developing vaccines yet…

Start With a joint major in

Chemistry and Molecular Biology & Biochemistry

And a co-op placement at

National Research Council Canada

Find your purpose as a(n)

Biochemist, cell research chemist

Learn More About Our Programs

“I think the SFU Chemistry department offers more interesting programs compared to other schools, and it also feels like it’s a closer community. SFU is not an entirely big school, but it’s also not a small school. So you get this kind of cool medium that allows you to make great connections with the faculty and other students.”