Opportunities after Graduation
American Institute of Physics career resource page- Who is hiring Physics majors?
Physics majors who have recently graduated from PSU with a B.S. in Physics have gone on to a variety of opportunities, including:
Jobs at places such as:
AMOS (Air Force Maui Optical Superconducting Center) - Maui
Applied Hydro-Acoustics Research
Applied Research Laboratory (PSU)
BAE Systems
Bates-White
Bechtel (and BWXT Y12 Security)
Bettis Laboratory
Boeing
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Center for Remote Sensing
Central Intelligence Agency
Credit Suisse First Boston (as a systems analyst!)
Digital Semiconductor
Electro-Optics Center
EPIC Systems
GeoEye
IBM (Research and Systems)
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
Lockheed Martin
Lutron
MIT Lincoln Laboratories
NASA Huntsville
National Air and Space Intelligence Center
National Institute of Science and Technology
National Security Agency
Naval Research Laboratory
Naval Surface Warfare Center
Raytheon
SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation)
Tiger Optics
United States Army: Night Vision and Electronic Sensors
United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission
United Patent and Trademark Office
Graduate studies in Physics and other disciplines at universities such as:
Alabama (acoustics)
Boston University
Cambridge University (UK)
Chicago
Colorado State
Columbia
Cornell
Delaware
Dublin (Ireland)
Duke
Eastern Carolina
Florida
Harvard
Illinois
Kentucky
Louisiana State (gravity)
Maryland
Max Planck Institute
McGill
MIT
Minnesota
New Mexico
Northwestern
Ohio State
Princeton
Stanford (Applied Physics)
SUNY Stony Brook
Tennessee
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Riverside
University of California, San Diego
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Illinois
University of Michigan
University of Pennsylvania
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin, Madison
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (gravity)
University of Virginia
Non-Physics Graduate Programs:
Astronomy/Astrophysics
Biomedical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Geosciences
Industrial Health and Safety
Materials Science
Medical Physics
Medical School (and M.D./Ph.D. programs)
Neuroscience
Nuclear Engineering