Outcomes 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.  


National Statistics



Companies who have hired Cornell physics students after their Bachelors degree



  • Apple — Software Engineer

  • Applied Materials — Engineer

  • BNP Paribas — Credit Trader

  • 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

  • Merecer — Consulting

  • 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 —

  • Cal Tech — Astrophysics

  • Cal Tech —

  • Columbia — Materials Science

  • Columbia —

  • Cornell — Applied

  • Cornell — Computer Science

  • Cornell — Education

  • Cornell — Operations Research

  • Cornell —

  • Cambridge — Mathematics

  • Dartmouth — Plasma

  • Duke —

  • Georgetown — Medicine

  • Harvard — Applied

  • Harvard —

  • Max Planck Institute for Gravitational —

  • Maryland — Astrophysics

  • Maryland —

  • Michigan —

  • MIT —

  • Northwestern — Experimental Particle

  • Ohio State — High Energy

  • Penn State — Acoustics

  • Penn State —

  • Pittsburgh — Law

  • Princeton — Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Princeton —

  • Rochester —

  • Rutgers — Astrophysics

  • Rutgers — Biomedical Engineering

  • Rutgers — Neuroscience

  • Southeastern Bible College — Vegetable Crops

  • Stanford University — Applied

  • Stanford University —

  • Teachers College, Columbia University — Teaching Certificate for

  • Tufts — Education

  • UC Berkeley — Astronomy

  • UC Berkeley —

  • UC Irvine —

  • UC Los Angeles —

  • UC San Diego — Electrical Engineering

  • UC Santa Barbara —

  • UC Santa Cruz —

  • University of Chicago — Law

  • University of Chicago —

  • University of Colorado at Boulder — Applied Mathematics

  • University of Colorado at Boulder —

  • University of Maryland — Plasma

  • University of Pennsylvania — High Energy

  • University of Southern California — Cosmology

  • University of Washington —

  • Washington University in Saint Louis —

  • Wisconsin — Astronomy

  • Wisconsin —

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