Coordinator: Dr. Gary Scott

The paper and related industries (including pulp, mineral, chemical and machinery suppliers) continually seek knowledgeable and skilled employees. Each year, companies hire numerous graduates of chemical, mechanical and environmental engineering programs as well as chemists and other environmental professionals in addition to paper science and engineering graduates. Salaries for new hires are among the highest for all fields of study at the bachelor’s degree level. This minor gives students a basic understanding of the paper industry that will allow them to apply their major field of study to this growth industry. 

The paper science minor is available to all ESF and Syracuse University undergraduate students (except students in paper engineering programs) who maintain a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.70. Waivers to prerequisites of courses will be favorably considered in increase access to the minor across campus.  Fifteen credit hours in paper science courses are required.