What can I do with my physics degree?
Knowledge & Skills Developed:
- Aptitude for mathematics & physics
- Attention to detail
- Categorizing information
- Communication skills (verbal & written)
- Critical & inferential thinking
- Experimental design
- Laboratory equipment operation
- Organization, analysis, & interpretation of scientific data
- Performing calculations using complex formulae
- Project management
- Scientific writing
- Theory development
Potential Careers:
- Astronomer
- Astrophysicist
- Cancer Researcher
- Diagnostic Imaging Physicist
- Environmental Auditor
- Exploration Geophysicist
- Game Design Physicist
- Geophysicist
- Instrument Designer
- Laser Spectroscopy Specialist
- Medical Physicist
- Meteorologist
- Mining Geologist
- Particle Physicist
- Physicist
- Pollution Control Technologist
- Professor/Teacher
- Radiation Therapist
- Research Scientist in Nanotechnology
- Risk Specialist
- Satellite Development
- Surveyor
Note: Additional education or specialized training is required for many occupations.
Explore hundreds of Alberta Occupational Profiles .
Potential Employers:
- Alberta Environment and Parks
- Atomic Energy Canada*
- BP Canada
- Canadian Nuclear Laboratories*
- Environment Canada*
- Health Canada*
- Imperial Oil Resources*
- Jet Energy Corporation
- Matrix Solutions Inc.
- National Research Council of Canada
- Paramount Energy Trust
- Snolab*
- Tetra Tech
- Triumf*
- University of Alberta *
*These companies have partnered with our Science Internship Program to offer you working experience during your undergraduate degree.