Giving Physicists the Business

The job market for physicists has been waning for years, but USC is hoping to change that with its new Physics for Business Applications Program.

The two-year master’s program aims to produce graduates who combine scientific and technical knowledge with business savvy, because physicists must increasingly look to the commercial world for job opportunities. The program--offered by the university’s College of Letters, Arts and Sciences in cooperation with the Marshall School of Business--will enroll its first students this fall. USC’s department of physics and astronomy developed the program with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.