A liberal arts education prepares you for the challenges of a changing and unpredictable world, equipping you with the skills to communicate, debate, solve problems and think critically. Here's a sampling of careers paths for physics majors.
First Jobs
- Graduate student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Graduate student, University of Pennsylvania
- Deep learning software intern, iRobot, Bedford, Massachusetts
- Golf research and testing technician, Bridgestone Golf
- Software engineer, Uber
- Researcher, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Germany
- Software engineer, Vecna Medical Technologies, Greenbelt, Maryland
- Coding program participant, Horizons Schools of Technology, San Francisco
- Science teacher, New York City Teaching Fellows
- Process engineer, Jacobs Engineering, Philadelphia
- Research analyst, ICF International, Washington
Careers
- Deputy director of engineering, City of Indianapolis
- Flight controller, NASA
- Research and Development, Titleist Golf
- Chief scientist-diagnostic, Imaging & Biomedicine, GE Global Research
- Electromagnetics engineer, Naval Research Laboratory
- Vice president of product management, J. P. Morgan Chase
- Data scientist, Capital One
- Physics professor, Davidson College
- Manufacturing engineer, Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Operations division director, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance
- Senior research scientist, Lockheed Martin
- Patent examiner, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Semiconductor processing engineer, Intel Corporation
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