Undergraduate Physics Students
To study physics is to join humanity's storied quest to discover and understand the most basic laws and principles governing our material world. The Department of Physics and Astronomy's flexible programs of varying depth offer deep intellectual satisfaction and impressive qualifications for a wide variety of careers.
- Find out about the excitement of physics and learn about career paths physicists take!
- Find out about undergraduate life in the Physics and Astronomy Department.
- Enrich your undergraduate education with a Physics or Astronomy Minor.
- Prepare for a career in secondary education, medicine, law, business, or journalism---or indeed any field that places a premium on critical thinking---through a Physics Major with the General Concentration.
- Prepare for a career in technological or industrial fields outside of physics through a Physics Major with the Applied Concentration.
- Prepare for a career solving engineering problems at the frontier between science and technology with an Engineering Physics Major.
- Prepare to enter a graduate program in astronomy or astrophysics through a Physics Major with the Astronomy Concentration.
- Prepare for professional employment or graduate work in physics---or closely related fields such as engineering, laser technology, or computational science---through a Physics Major with the Academic Concentration.
- Challenge yourself with our honors concentrations.
- Find out about the department's scholarships, research fellowships, and other awards for qualified undergraduate students.
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