Course Overview

This degree offers you a broad-based experimental Physics programme which forms the basic training for the professional physicist. It also provides a strong foundation for many other career opportunities.

In your first year, you study subjects including Quantum Physics and Electromagnetism and develop your understanding through lectures, laboratory classes and project work.

You will move on to modules such as Quantum Mechanics, Properties of Matter and Laboratory work in your second year and subjects including Particle Physics, Solid State Physics, Atomic and Nuclear Physics in your third year.

The course selection is really good and you can get all the help you need as the departmental staff are very helpful.

Career opportunities

As a Lancaster Physics graduate, you will have a wide range of possible career options. Our graduates often go into careers where Physics is a requirement for example, as meteorologists, geophysicists, astronomers or medical physicists. Others develop careers in teaching, research or industry, where they carry on using their Physics knowledge.

Others make the most of the transferable skills they have acquired and take up employment in the financial service industries, the military, the police and management.

A substantial number of our graduates stay on to undertake research degrees at Lancaster and elsewhere. For example, recent graduates are now studying Physics, Theoretical Cosmology, Gravitational Physics, Particle Physics, Experimental and Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Ultralow Temperature Physics, Biomedical Physics, Accelerator Physics and Mathematical Physics to PhD level.