Outcomes After Cornell

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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.  

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• 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