Currently there are 475 B.Sc., 41 M .Sc and 22 PhD students (77.5% women). Since the establishment of the department in 1965 the number of graduates has totaled over 1900; those graduates hold jobs in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries and as teachers in the ministry of education and in the private sector. Moreover, some of the chemistry graduates are currently professors in other Jordanian Universities.
Research interests of the faculty members are very diversed; they include, among others, organic synthesis, natural products, electrochemistry, environmental studies, water research, polyner chemistry, organometallics, material science, catalysis, bioorganic chemistry, emulsions, pharmaceuticals, and surface sciences.
To learn more about the research interests of individual faculty members please browse the website of the department or send private emails to any one of them. For information about the department facilities contact the chairman of the department by sending an email to his private email or at chem@ju.edu.jo. The department looks forward to attracting excellent students to study chemistry in the undergraduate and graduate programs.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that the department of chemistry has a glass blowing shop, a 300 MHz NMR, graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrophotometer, FTIR, UV, Vis., TGA, DSC, CHNS analyzer, and has recently acquired a state of the art high resolution mass spectrometer. It is also developing new emerging interdisciplinary areas such as material science; this will provide an interface between the department of chemistry and other departments like the department of physics.