WELCOME TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

The Loyola Physics Department focuses on undergraduate physics education.  We offer courses at all levels for physics majors, science majors in other disciplines, and non-science majors.  Our mission is twofold.  We aim to open students' minds to the power, beauty, and utility of the physical sciences.  We also try to help students hone their quantitative skills and problem-solving abilities.  This is important for many areas of endeavor and can lead to a wide variety of careers, graduate study, and professional programs.  Besides physics grad school, our students have entered the health professions (ex. medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, etc), law, engineering (ex. electrical, mechanical, etc), computer science, mathematics, astronomy, meteorology, biophysics, business, the military, high school teaching, and other fields.

We strongly encourage students to explore science research and employment opportunities during the summer and school year.  The Loyola Hauber program provides a stipend and half-price housing for students doing summer research at Loyola.  This is available to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors.  Loyola faculty members have research programs in biophysics, laser spectroscopy, surface physics, computational physics, nuclear physics, solar physics, and the history and philosophy of science.  In addition, there are summer research programs at many institutions throughout the US.  (Click here to find out more about student research.)

If you want to know what you can do with a physics degree, check out these websites:

www.physicscentral.com 
www.spsnational.org/cup
www.aps.org/jobs
www.aip.org/careersvc
Career paths of students graduating from Loyola