If you are interested in the basics laws behind the complexity of the world, pursuing a physics education in one of the world's leading centers of research and discovery will be an exciting and rewarding experience. Our program of studies is rigorous and demanding, but if you find the physics courses you have taken so far interesting and manageable, you are certainly up to the challenge. An old aphorism says that a good undergraduate education should teach students how to think. We do much more: we teach students to think as physicists. The quantitative, analytical and research skills they acquire have applicability well beyond physics, from neuroscience to finance.

Independent work through junior papers, summer internships and senior thesis is a crucial part of our curriculum, and open doors into real research, either theoretical or experimental, which can lead to publications in major research journals. Most of our students go on to graduate school at first-rate universities, and often become leaders in their fields. Students who use their physics training to pursue careers in diverse fields such as biology, engineering, law, medicine, and business do equally well. There is no better place than Princeton to start a career in physics, or just explore physics as a "turbocharged liberal art."