Physics with a Year in Industry BSc (Hons)

Industry experience is a great way to explore future career options and boost your employability. On this accredited degree, you will spend a placement year with an industrial partner. This placement offers real-life experience to apply your learning to a practical setting, build connections, and see how a company operates. We have a dedicated Placement Coordinator who can help find an opportunity that is right for you. Our teaching has been given the highest rating of 'Gold' (Teaching Excellence Framework 2017). You may recognise some of our staff from the popular Sixty Symbols YouTube channel.We are proud of our world-changing impact. Research undertaken within the School, by Professor Sir Peter Mansfield, was recognised with a 2003 Nobel Prize for the invention of Magnetic Resonance Imaging body scanners. This technology has already helped more than half a billion people worldwide. More recently, our use of quantum technologies to understand how the brain works is changing the way that neurological conditions are detected and treated.- Accredited by the Institute of Physics- Joint 3rd for research quality in physics in the UK (Research Excellence Framework 2014)- Flexibility to transfer between most physics degrees after the first year