After Cornell
After you graduate you will have a many choices. Here, you can find out what many physics students choose to do after commencement. About half of our physics majors pursue post-graduate education and half directly enter the workforce. Statistics on the college of Arts and Sciences as a whole can be found here.
National Statistics
- Big Bucks for Physicists
- Who is hiring Physics Bachelors?
- Where physics bachelors work
- Starting Salaries
- Physics Salaries after 10 years
- Physics Trends
Companies who have hired Cornell physics students after their Bachelors degree
- Apple — Software Engineer
- Applied Materials — Engineer
- Booz Allen Hamilton — Consultant
- Cornell — Lab Assistant
- Cornell — Research Assistant
- Cornell LEPP — Temp
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute — Lab Technician
- Dean & Company — Analyst
- Deloitte Consulting — Analyst
- Enrich Consulting — Analyst
- Ernst and Young — Financial Analyst
- Institute for the Future — Research Assistant
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory — Associate Engineer
- Lourdes Hospital — Dosimetrist Assistant
- M&S Engineering — Hydrologist/CAD Technician
- MIT Lincoln Laboratory — Assistant Researcher
- Stego Industries — Regional Sales Manager
- Teach for America — Secondary School Teacher
- TRW — General Engineer
- US Dept of Energy — Scientist
- Weill Medical College — Teaching Assistant
- Yale Press — Assistant
List of post-graduate institutions attended by Cornell physics students
- Boston University — Physics
- Cal Tech — Astrophysics
- Cal Tech — Physics
- Columbia — Physics
- Cornell — Applied Physics
- Cornell — Computer Science
- Cornell — Education
- Cornell — Operations Research
- Cornell — Physics
- Cambridge — Mathematics
- Duke — Physics
- Georgetown — Medicine
- Harvard — Applied Physics
- Harvard — Physics
- Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics — Physics
- Maryland — Astrophysics
- Maryland — Physics
- Michigan — Physics
- MIT — Physics
- Penn State — Acoustics
- Penn State — Physics
- Pittsburgh — Law
- Princeton — Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Princeton — Physics
- Rochester — Physics
- Rutgers — Biomedical Engineering
- Rutgers — Neuroscience
- Southeastern Bible College — Vegetable Crops
- Tufts — Education
- UC Berkeley — Astronomy
- UC Berkeley — Physics
- UC Irvine — Physics
- UC Los Angeles — Physics
- UC San Diego — Electrical Engineering
- UC Santa Barbara — Physics
- UC Santa Cruz — Physics
- University of Chicago — Law
- University of Chicago — Physics
- University of Colorado at Boulder — Applied Mathematics
- University of Colorado at Boulder — Physics
- University of Washington — Physics
- Washington University in Saint Louis — Physics
- Wisconsin — Astronomy
- Wisconsin — Physics
