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Getting to Work with Your Bachelor’s Degree

SEP 01, 2024
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If you’re like many physics and astronomy majors looking for a job after graduation, you might be unsure where to start. Here’s a look at what recent bachelor’s degree graduates were up to one year after graduating. To learn more, visit AIP Statistical Research at

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These employers recently hired three or more new physics bachelor’s degree recipients for technical positions, according to responses to AIP’s follow-up surveys of physics bachelors in the classes of 2018–22. This list does not include high schools, colleges, universities, or enlisted US military.

  • Accenture
  • Actalent
  • Aerotek
  • Amazon
  • American Physical Society
  • Apex Systems
  • Apple
  • Applied Materials
  • Arete Associates
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • ASML
  • ASRC Federal
  • AT&T
  • Axient
  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch
  • Baylor Scott & White Healthcare
  • Belcan
  • Benchmark Electronics
  • Bloomberg
  • Blue Origin
  • BNY Mellon
  • Boeing
  • Booz Allen Hamilton
  • Bridger Photonics
  • Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory

To see C–Z, visit bit.ly/4cp6Djz .


To search who’s hiring by state, visit aip.org/statistics/whos-hiring-physics-bachelors .


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Volume 58, Number 2

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