Choosing Physics major is a difficult and brave decision, not least because everyone around is telling you that you will have no job prospects and most of your peers are choosing Engineering or Computer Science. So then why should you be optimistic for a Physics major? For starters, what you should understand is that Physics is the most fundamental of all the sciences and is concerned with the question of ‘WHY’ things are the way they are in the universe that we live in ranging from fundamental particles like quarks and neutrons and electrons at the subatomic scale to galaxies that are billions of light-years away. If you feel curious about your surroundings, if you are curious about formulas which are useful for engineers and you want to know why they use these formulas not other formulas or you wonder about nature phenomenon like the red color of sunset or the reason of circulation of earth and etc or if you want to be pioneer in the field of science and if you want to expand boundaries of knowledge, then the Physics major is for you…



A lot of advances in the modern world have stemmed from pioneering discoveries in Physics, for example, electronic components and devices like televisions and computers would not have been possible without the understanding of solid-state physics, digital cameras and huge telescopes would be impossible without optics , sending and landing space crafts to other planets would be impossible without advanced science of analytic mechanics and so on . Some of the most brilliant minds in our world were physicists like Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton , Schrodinger and etc . So if you aspire to be like these people and have the impact they had, then the Physics major is for you.

Physics is interesting, exciting and challenging. There are lots of fields of research and specialty in physics such as Atomic / Molecular / Optical Condensed Matter Cosmology / Relativity / Gravity Elementary Particles / Field / String Theory Nuclear Plasma Quantum.  Each of these specialty can expand humans knowledge. And students after studying some basic course of physics they can choose the appropriate specialty.  Projects which worked by engineers have goals like decreasing the final cost or to make instruments more efficient and more useful or manufacturing a product from laboratory scale. But what is important for the physicist and goals of physicists are way beyond these goals , Physicists work on projects which its goal is to enhance humans life or expand humans knowledge about the environment. What they make in lab scales would manufacture years after that, physicists are always beyond the humanity of their own age.

If you still want more encouragement before deciding or you want to know how well-suited your particular background is to a Physics major you can ask your question. And if you want to know the ranking of universities based of physics specialty, you can click here. We hope that you make the true choice and choose the major which best fits you and help humanity in any Academic discipline.