It is an excellent degree for those who may continue study in law, business or medicine, computer/information technology or in an engineering or another science area after the BS. It is also appropriate for those who wish to work in a science or technical area at the BS level in industry or government. It is also an attractive degree for those undergraduates who have a clear vision of individual educational goals in physics and wish to take advantage of the flexibility in this program. These 12 hours must consist of a coherent set of courses with an identified educational goal. Up to three of the 12 hours can be from 200-level classes, the remaining hours must be upper division (300-level or above).

You have a great deal of flexibility when choosing your elective emphases: technology, business, life sciences, pre-professional, etc. As soon as possible, meet with your faculty advisor to define an emphasis and choose 12 hours of electives in this emphasis. Here are a few sample elective tracks: Acoustics, Aerospace Engineering, Biophysics, Business, Computer Science/Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Medicine, Microelectronics/Semiconductor Devices, Nuclear Physics, Optical Communication Engineering, Optical/Laser Engineering.