Careers and employability
The flexibility and adaptability of a well-trained physicist is appreciated by employers and Exeter physics graduates have excellent employment prospects.
A recent study by the Institute of Physics showed that the physics-based industries in the UK are key growth sectors and that they are increasing their share of the global market.
Our Physics programmes will develop your skills in a variety of technical areas such as:
- Practical laboratory work
- Problem solving using advanced mathematical techniques and research.
You will also acquire many more generic skills such as:
- IT skills
- Project management
- Communication
- The ability to manage your own time.
About 80 per cent of our graduates choose employment or further education that directly uses their physics expertise and scientific training. About 24 per cent choose to continue their studies with a higher degree in their chosen speciality. Others choose to use their knowledge of physics in an industrial setting or through teaching at secondary schools. Some graduates prefer to make use of the wider skills they learn at Exeter and enter a variety of careers in finance, IT and business management.
Some examples of recent careers and further study that our graduates have gone on to, can be found at our graduate destinations webpage.
I have just started my second year on the GDF (Graduate Development Framework) for SELEX Galileo. SELEX are responsible for the design and production of radar and laser targeting solutions for military applications. Having done a physics degree it helps me to apply some theory learnt in lectures to real world situations. Having covered a wide range of topics from Electromagnetism to Signal and Image processing it has given me the tools to really get stuck into projects.
Exeter's social side is second to none and it sounds a little cliché but I wouldn't trade the four years at Exeter University for the world.
Oliver Hamilton, MPhys Physics graduate
