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PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY (BS)*: PHYSICS (BS, Minor)*: Discover the
Drive the design and production of new deepest mysteries of science at all levels,
drugs that enable you to fight disease from subatomic particles to galaxies, as
and promote healthier, more active lives. you prepare for a myriad of career paths.
Specializations: astrophysics, biophysics,
Career Opportunities: A Pharmaceutical general physics, materials science,
Chemistry degree leads to graduate or medical physics, and pre-health.
medical, dental or other professional
schools. You may pursue an advanced Career Opportunities: Your physics
degree in science or engineering. You training gives you the ability to work as
may choose to enter fields such as an engineer, medical physicist, materials
government regulations, research scientist in universities, national
and development, or quality control— laboratories such as NASA, NIH, NIST,
employment sectors that have DOE, and FDA, semi-conductor companies
traditionally been in demand. Or you like Intel, AMD, biomedical firms, defense
may gravitate to growing areas such as contractors such as Boeing and Raytheon,
data science, intellectual property, and or as a financial analyst at Wall Street.
technology transfer. Your programming skills allow you to work
as a software engineer. You can also work
as a program manager or technical writer.

DATA SCIENCE

DATA SCIENCE (BS): Get the knowledge, Career Opportunities: As more industries
skills, and technical foundation to make recognize the impact data can have on
sense of an avalanche of data, unlock their return on investment, doors will open
scientific insights, and tackle multidis- to professionals with backgrounds in data
ciplinary problems. Work with data from science, including data scientist, data
a variety of sources/formats, to solve analyst, business analyst, data mining
real-world problems. Learn to evaluate specialist, and data manager. Relevant
data quality and maintain data integrity, industries include healthcare, automation,
security, and privacy, and effectively artificial intelligence, gaming, meteorology,
communicate results of data analyses. insurance, agriculture, and sports.

*Pre-Health Professions Option: The pre-health professions curriculum is built into these programs,
allowing students to prepare for medical, dental, optometry, or veterinary school while completing their
bachelor’s degree program.