You will benefit from attentive individual support along with focused tutorial and practical sessions from staff that are actively engage in world leading research. Regular informal discussion gatherings between staff and students enable you to network closely with our expert academic and research staff. JCU is located in the heart of tropical northern Queensland and offers a unique learning environment.You will have rare opportunities to observe and work with physics in action right on our campus doorstep. Our location enables you toexplore the applied fields of: Meteorology — weather and climate in the varied dry and wet tropics and tropical cyclone belt Oceanography — ocean and estuaries and the Great Barrier Reef. You will even gain highly valued skills through real world projects and industry practice. The Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Antimatter-Matter Studies (CAMS) has a research node based right here at JCU, so you will be immersed in diverse research ranging from fundamental electron-positron scattering to biophysics and organic solar cells.

Physics encompasses all science, technology and engineering fields. As a study of the laws of nature, physics allows you to be experimental, analytical and creative. Rapidly developing global technologies must respond to existing and evolving natural laws, so skilled physicists are in high demand worldwide. Physics graduates can pursue careers in a wide range of industrial, scientific and educational occupations in fields such as health, meteorology, environmental monitoring, energy production, telecommunications, and computing. Research physicists require postgraduate qualifications and specialise in areas such as molecular physics, astronomy, marine physics, electromagnetic remote sensing, and gaseous electronics.