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Career Prospects

Professional Disciplines

Your degree provides an excellent foundation for Education (high school and University), Engineering, Medicine or Dentistry. Graduates from this discipline have also gone on to work in Law, Journalism or Management.

Related Fields

Here are just a few of the options that may be open to you once you’ve earned your degree or with further training:

  • Condensed Matter Physicist
  • Medical Physicist
  • Biophysics
  • Researcher
  • Research Scientist
  • Atomic & Molecular Physicist
  • Nuclear & Particle Physicist
  • Finance
  • Consulting
  • Nanoscience
  • Astrophysicist
  • Geophysicist
  • Teacher
  • Computer Scientist
  • Meteorology
  • Archaeometrist
  • Applied Physicist
  • Environmental Physicist
  • Neurophysicist

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