A BSc Physics with an Industrial Placement Year at Sheffield is where you really discover the epic scale of this field – while adding real industry experience to your CV.

You will learn about international experiments to search for dark matter, and how the quantum nature of light can help us build even more powerful computers. And at Sheffield, you’ll also learn how practical, lab-based learning brings abstract lecture topics into the real world.

Your journey into physics begins with heat, motion, quantum mechanics and the other fundamental theories behind everything. In year two, you’ll explore essential physics in even more depth, and tailor your degree as you choose optional modules like advanced programming, that will set you up for a future career.

Year three is where you take what you’ve learned into the real world. Our students have worked on new particle accelerators and nuclear waste management at government laboratories. They’ve applied their analysis skills to data science jobs in the civil service, and joined the Large Hadron Collider team at CERN, as part of their placement year.

Back in Sheffield for your final year, you can branch out into multiple areas with modules on topics like particle physics, nuclear physics and semiconductor technologies. And of course you’ll have the chance to complete your own research project, or industrial group project, giving you hands-on experience investigating a real-world physics problem.