The Physical Sciences Department offers areas of study in chemistry and physics for chemistry majors and chemistry and physics minors, and for pre-medicine, pre-dentistry, pre-veterinary and pre-pharmacy programs. Five Ph.D. chemistry faculty members and two full-time chemistry staff members teach a full academic chemistry major, including courses in general, organic, analytical, inorganic, physical, environmental, and biochemistry, as well as providing supporting courses for programs in biology, nursing, physical therapy and pre-engineering. Two Ph.D. physics faculty members provide courses for a minor in physics as well as support courses for chemistry and biology majors. Many biology majors also earn a minor in chemistry and some biology majors do a dual major in biology and chemistry.

Physical Sciences faculty at Barry University have three goals for their students:

1. to ensure competence.
2. to instill confidence.
3. to enhance self-reliance.

To meet these goals faculty engage in a variety of classroom, non-classroom and research activities. A small student-to-professor ratio allows professors to give students individual attention, not only in the lecture, but particularly in the laboratory and advanced courses. Professors get to know students by name. We train our students to become laboratory problem-solvers with a firm underpinning of theoretical concepts. In addition, our students are given individual and group opportunities on modern instrumentation to prepare them for their careers.

The Chemistry Department at Barry University is an exciting place to be, with new faculty, instrumentation, programs and completely renovated laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation. Our lecture class sizes rarely exceed thirty students and our laboratory sizes are twenty or less. If you are looking for a successful chemistry program with emphasis on you, the student, Barry University is the place to come. Feel free to contact any of the faculty for additional information.