While many of the majors go on to graduate study, we have structured our programs to be sufficiently flexible that they also accommodate students wishing to study abroad, or to combine physics with other fields of study, including medicine and interdisciplinary programs in astrophysics, biophysics, chemical physics, computing, and engineering. These different options can be accommodated by selecting either the traditional or interdisciplinary major, which have somewhat different requirements.

The astronomy and astrophysics programs center their curricula on the phenomena of the extraterrestrial Universe and on understanding them in terms of the fundamental principles of physics. We emphasize student research with faculty members, and our upper-level courses contain substantial project- and/or research-based investigation..