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Loughborough Physics graduates are highly valued by employers and the employment rate of our students is one of the best in the country. The excellent Foundation in Physics coupled with the wide number of modules enable our students to develop their interests opening up a wide range of career prospects.
Below you can see data obtained from the Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey for 2009/10 graduates. All figures are given as a percentage.
Destination Categories
| Course |
Course Title |
Employment |
Further Study |
Work & Study |
Not Available |
Unemployed |
Other |
Known |
| PHUB01 |
Physics |
50.0 |
16.7 |
33.3 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
75.0 |
| PHUB02 |
Engineering Physics |
75.0 |
25.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
100.0 |
| PHUB03 |
Physics & Maths |
50.0 |
50.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
100.0 |
| PHUB14 |
Sports Science & Physics |
0.0 |
75.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
25.0 |
0.0 |
57.1 |
| PHUB15 |
Physics & Management |
50.0 |
0.0 |
50.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
100.0 |
| PHUM01 |
Physics (Ext) |
33.3 |
66.7 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
90.0 |
Department Overall |
40.7 |
44.4 |
11.1 |
0.0 |
3.7 |
0.0 |
81.8 |
Please note:
The "Employment category includes those in full-time, part-time, voluntary/unpaid and self-employment.
The "Work & Study" category includes those for whom either their work or study could be their primary activity.
Quality of Employment
| Course |
Course Title |
Graduate Level Role |
Non-graduate Level Role |
| PHUB01 |
Physics |
75.0 |
25.0 |
| PHUB02 |
Engineering Physics |
100.0 |
0.0 |
| PHUB03 |
Physics & Maths |
100.0 |
0.0 |
| PHUB15 |
Physics & Management |
0.0 |
100.0 |
| PHUM01 |
Physics (Ext) |
100.0 |
0.0 |
Department Overall |
60.0 |
40.0 |
Salaries
| Course |
Course Title |
Average Salary £ |
Number of Grads Giving Salary Information |
| PHUB01 |
Physics |
21,667 |
3 |
| PHUB02 |
Engineering Physics |
24,500 |
2 |
| PHUB03 |
Physics & Maths |
23,000 |
1 |
| PHUM01 |
Physics (Ext) |
25,000 |
1 |
Department Overall |
23,143 |
7 |
Listed below are some of the careers followed by recent Physics graduates. In addition students often decide to follow or research leading higher qualifications (MPhil or PhD) both at Loughborough and at other universities in the UK and abroad.
- Army - Officer Training Sandhurst
- GlaxoSmithKline - Research
- Schlumberger - Field Engineer
- Nottingham Law School
- IBM - Software Engineer
- PricewaterhouseCoopers - Management
- RAF - Officer Training Cranwell
- Georgia Institute USA - Biomechanics Research
- Rolls Royce - Research Engineer
- Aer Lingus - Trainee Airline Pilot
- British Nuclear Fuels - Research Scientist
- Max Planck Institute Stuttgart - Research Scientist
- DERA - Research Scientist
- Nortel - Engineer
- Ernst and Young - Systems Analyst
- Hewlett Packard - Software Engineer
- Andersen Consulting - Management Consultant
- BP Oil - Control Engineer
- Merc Sharp and Dohme - Medical Research
- Royal Navy - Officer Training Dartmouth
- CNRS Marseilles - Bio Physics Research
- Pilkington Glass - Research and Development
- Lincoln County Hospital - Clinical Scientist
- Meteorological Office Bracknell - Scientific Officer
- PGCE Teacher Training
- Barclays Bank - Finance Consultant
- Air Traffic Control - Mathematical Modeling
- Institut Laue Langevin - Nuclear Physics Research
- Siemens - Production Engineer
- British Antarctic Survey
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