Placement After Graduation
A degree in physics at Carnegie Mellon University leads to many different places:
- Graduate school in physics
- Graduate school in other areas, such as other sciences, engineering, business, law, medicine, teaching
- Excellent jobs in top high technology firms
Our recent graduating students went on to top graduate schools in physics and related disciplines, such as:
- Brown: Physics
- CalTech: Applied Physics, Computation and Neural Systems
- Chicago: Astrophysics, Physical Chemistry
- Cornell: Physics
- Harvard: Applied Physics
- Mayo Clinic: Medical Physics
- Princeton: Mech. Eng., Physics
- Stanford: Physics, Geophysics, Aeronautics and Astronautics
- UC Berkeley: Physical Chemistry, Physics and Materials Science & Engineering
- UCLA: Physics and Biology in Medicine
The Career and Professional Development Center is a great resource for helping our students with placement into top firms after graduation. Our recent graduates found excellent jobs in industry, for example:
- Post-bacc Researcher, NASA
- Propulsion Engineer, Lockheed Martin
- Analyst, JPMorgan Chase
- Software Developer, IBM
- Scientific Data Analyst, NRAO
- Stress Analysis Engineer, Boeing
- Software Engineer, Citadel
- Engineer, Maryland Aerospace Inc.
- Research, Intel Corp.
- Research and Data Mining, Thomson Reuters
- Research, Siemens
- Risk Management, Citigroup
- Software Engineering, Amazon
- Research & Development, Space X
- Research, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab