The Master of Science (M.S.) in Chemistry and Molecular Technology program is designed to accommodate a wide variety of students with diverse backgrounds and needs. The department includes several world-renowned chemical research laboratories, where students can learn state-of-the-art techniques from professors and staff. Students may be either full-time or part-time, as the majority of courses meet in the evening. Many students are already working full-time, often for chemical companies, and wish to upgrade their existing qualifications. Others are full-time, concentrating on research, and often continuing on to Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) programs after their master's. The program can be completed within approximately two years by full-time students, or longer by part-time students. Courses range from traditional lectures and labs to full research courses. The skills learned by graduate students will enhance their value in industry, government, and academia. Most members of the graduate faculty are affiliated with Ph.D. programs at Rutgers University-New Brunswick (Chemistry and Material Science and Engineering) or Rutgers University-Camden (Computational and Integrative Biology) campuses, so students can continue on to Ph.D. work with the same adviser on the Camden campus.

The research interests of the department are diverse and include polymer materials, organic synthesis, biomaterials and eco-design, bio-mimic assembly, bioanalytical forensic chemistry, molecular modeling and machine learning, forensic chemistry, and toxicology, biosensing and nanotechnology, organometallic, biophysics, materials physics, within others. Forensic, biochemistry and t oxicology and computational faculty solve grand challenges associated with next-generation diagnostic tools, material-based therapies, and chemical toxicity. Environmental, organic, biophysics and materials chemistry faculty use natural materials to engineer materials with extraordinary mechanical properties, biological compatibility, and biodegradability while synthesizing and characterizing several conducting polymers, natural biomacromolecules or novel fluorocarbons for device applications. Faculty and students participate in national and international conferences, and scientific results are published in peer-reviewed journals. Equipment currently used in the department includes a 400 MHz NMR spectrometer; a triple-quadruple HPLC-MS; a triple quadrupole GC-MS; thermal analysis (TGA and DSC); an atomic force microscope (AFM); infrared, Raman, and confocal fluorescence microscopes; UV-VIS and fluorescent spectrometers; Maldi-tof, SEM Cube II, a high-performance computing cluster for molecular modeling and visualization; and multiprocessor Unix computer systems.