What is acs certification?

Certification by the American Chemical Society

The American Chemical Society, with its over 160,000 members, is the leading professional society in the United States for practicing chemists. ACS sponsors important professional meetings and publishes a large number of scientific journals. Through its Vocational Training Committee, ACS evaluates vocational education in university chemistry in the United States. Students who successfully complete a university curriculum that meets ACS guidelines receive certification from the Company. These guidelines are long, but basically require 400 clock hours of traditional class work in chemistry courses covering the main areas of the discipline and 500 clock hours of formal laboratory experience in chemistry. Mathematics and physics courses are also indicated.

what is acs certification

Full details of the ACS guidelines for graduate certification are available in the CPT / ACS certification guidelines

All chemistry majors completing the BS curriculum will be appointed by the Department to receive certification from the ACS.

BA graduates who wish to qualify for the American Chemical Society certification for their degree must complete the following additional chemistry courses:

• CHEM 311, Inorganic Chemistry I (3 credits), e

• CHEM 328, Introductory Biochemistry (3) or BIOC 307, General Biochemistry I (4 credits) or CHEM 329, Chemical aspects of living systems (3 credits) E

• Complete 5 credit hours of CHEM 397: Undergraduate Research or CHEM 398: Undergraduate Research / Senior Capstone Project. The research project must culminate in a written report. Students doing chemistry-based research in other departments can petition the Graduate Committee to count this research for ACS accreditation purposes.

Certification by the ACS is considered favorable for admission to degree or professional programs. Certified graduates are entitled to become members of the Society after graduation; other chemistry graduates can become associate members after graduation and members after three years of professional experience in chemistry or chemical engineering.