Perspektiven
Career Options
During your studies, you will acquire a broad qualification profile, particularly in areas that require analytical, systematic and synthetic skills. This gives you career prospects in a whole range of professions and industries and - especially after a subsequent doctorate - very good opportunities on the labour market.
Significant fields of activity for physicists can be found in the following sectors (cf. Koppel 2016:27):
- Education and teaching,
- Technical services,
- metal and electrical industry and
- information and communication services.
Occupational profiles in which physicists are employed are in particular (ibid.: 21):
- Teaching and research occupations,
- gainful employment as a physicist (about 1/5 of physicists),
- Engineering professions,
- MINT expert occupations (MINT = mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology) and
Expert occupations in economics, for example in management consulting and communication
but also a variety of other possible fields of activity in which the above-mentioned competences play a role.
Source and additional information:
DPG - Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, Physik konkret, February 2019: Labour market for physicists, URL:
physicists, URL: www.dpg-physik.de/veroeffentlichungen/publikationen/physikkonkret/pix/pkonkret_2019_36.pdf
Additional Information
Doctoral Studies
After successfully completing a Master's degree, a doctoral programme is possible. This opens up further career opportunities.