Career opportunities
Skills for emerging roles
Our physics courses prepare you for a dynamic and creative career by teaching problem-solving skills and technical fundamentals. You will start building practical and theoretical skills from first year, and graduate ready to work in new and exciting roles in emerging areas.
Potential careers
Just some of the areas physics graduates work in include:
- medical diagnostics and treatment
- pharmaceuticals
- cosmetics
- minerals extraction
- the automotive sector.
Research graduates
An Honours degree is the beginning of a research career and a gateway to careers in applied physics such as medical physics and geophysics. Management consultancy firms also recruit many applicants with Honours degrees in physics.
A doctorate (PhD) in Physics is the first step of an academic career, but can also lead to careers in the financial sector, e.g. quantitative analysis for hedge funds and banks.
Specialisations
Graduates with a space physics specialisation often work for government scientific organisations, especially the Bureau of Meteorology.
Graduates from the Nanotechnology degree program are highly sought after by companies in the emerging field of nanotechnology – a technology enabling companies to develop and produce better products. The nanoscale represents the state-of-the-art level at which most of today’s advanced industries are working. It requires cross-disciplinary knowledge and skills, incorporating physics, chemistry, biology and nanofabrication.
Students with Science/Science Education double degrees can go on to careers in research as well as perusing highly regarded teaching leadership roles.
