Overview

he Chemistry MSc program at Bharathiar University has emerged as one of the full-fledged University Department of Bharathiar University. 

Key facts

During the inception, the department functioned with 3 faculty members. Further three more faculty members joined the team and the research area diversified with different specializations such as synthetic organic chemistry, natural product chemistry, medicinal chemistry, coordination chemistry, organometallics, and solid-state chemistry. Later six faculty members have joined in the department and the research area expanded with other specializations including physical chemistry, electrochemistry and environmental chemistry.

The department has awarded 163 Ph.D. and 200 M.Phil. degrees and 710 Postgraduate students. Currently, most of the doctoral students who have obtained their Ph.D. degree from the department have been employed as Scientists in industries (or) as Post-Doctoral fellows in Universities of USA, Canada, Europe, Japan, South Korea and China. Currently, some of the alumni of the department are working as faculty members in reputed institutions such as IISc, NIT, Universities and so on.