Undergraduate

Physics

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Overview

Entry requirements

Careers opportunities

Read by employers as one of the hardest quantitative degrees, and its graduates are hired well outside physics. Research posts require a doctorate; the larger destinations are technology, finance, engineering and teaching.

Roles graduates go into

  • Research scientist, after a doctorate
  • Data scientist or quantitative analyst
  • Systems or instrumentation engineer
  • Software engineer
  • Medical physicist, after training
  • Physics teacher, with a teaching qualification

Where they work

  • Technology and engineering companies
  • Finance and trading firms
  • Defence, aerospace and national laboratories
  • NHS medical physics
  • Schools and universities
After the course

A doctorate for research, the NHS Scientist Training Programme for medical physics, or a PGCE for teaching.

Fees and funding

Where you can study it

11 universities run this course

Entry terms differ between departments. An adviser will tell you which of these you are a realistic candidate for.

University Duration Enquire
Imperial College London London 4 years Enquire now
University College London London 4 years Enquire now
University of Bristol Bristol 4 years Enquire now
University of Glasgow Glasgow 5 years Enquire now
University of Birmingham Birmingham 4 years Enquire now
University of Nottingham Nottingham 4 years Enquire now
Kings College London London 4 years Enquire now
Queen Mary University of London London 5 years Enquire now
University of Dundee Dundee 5 years Enquire now
Royal Holloway University of London Egham 4 years Enquire now
Nottingham Trent University Nottingham 4 years Enquire now
Where you will study

Imperial College London

We work with 25 other universities in London, so settling on the place still leaves a choice inside it.

The region
England
Universities we list in London
26 this one among them
Courses there, all told
2,148 across every university we list in it
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