Your Future With a Physics Degree

Where Will You Take Physics?

If you want to know what you can do with a physics degree from Centenary, look to the success of our graduates. Many of our students continue on to graduate school in physics and engineering, some excel in medical school, and still others use the training they receive here (in optics, for example) to obtain technical employment. Others explore far afield, inventing rich lives and careers.

As you pursue physics, you will you hone your intelligence, tenacity, and technological sophistication. In conjunction with the personalized richness of a Centenary experience, you'll develop superior research and problem-solving skills.

Our Graduates Are Succeeding

Our physics students have taken their education far and wide. Just look at this list of what some Centenary College physics graduates are doing:

  • Accountant (CPA)
  • Aeronautical Engineer (Hughs Aircraft Co.)
  • Aeronautical-Aerospace Engineer (LTV Aerospace Defense Co.)
  • Aerospace Engineer (Vice President, Phelts Fan)
  • Analyst for Time-Warner cable, Shreveport
  • Applying to Medical School
  • Astronomer (Chairman of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University)
  • Astronomy
  • Attorney
  • Attorney (Self-employed)
  • Banking, applying to applied science program
  • Businessman (Owner of Bayou Security)
  • Chief Radiation Officer (Halliburton (oil & gas exploration)
  • Civil Engineer
  • Claims Representative (Aetna Life & Casualty)
  • Computer Engineering
  • Construction Engineer (Conoco)
  • Consultant (Barton Consulting Services)
  • Consultant (Environmental Tech. Consultants, VP-General Counsel) Civil Engineer(BS), Law
  • Contractor, (Free Lance Contractor, Self-Employed)
  • Director of Development (Shumpert Medical Center)
  • Electrical Engineer
  • Electrical Engineer (Electrospace Systems)
  • Electrical Engineer (Now in law school)
  • Electrical Engineering, Law
  • Engineer (Aircraft Builder, NASA)
  • Engineer (Bechtel National Inc.)
  • Engineer (Phelps Fan)
  • Engineer (Senior Engineer, Communications Equipment Management, Telekom, Inc.)
  • Engineer (Southwest Research)
  • Engineer at Texas Instruments, Dallas
  • Engineer at Trane, Shreveport-Bossier
  • Engineering Management
  • Executive Vice President, Geoquest Technology
  • Farmer (Beouf River Fish Farm)
  • Finished Med. School, in Residence
  • Geophysicsist
  • Grad. School, Applied Math, Colorado State Univ.
  • Grad. School, Biophysics at Rice University
  • Grad. School, Biophysics Scipps
  • Grad. School, Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin
  • Grad. School, Colorado School of Mines, Metallurgy
  • Grad. School, Engineering Univ. of Alabama
  • Grad. School, Geophysics, Rice University
  • Grad. School, Health and Exercise Science, Univ. of Pittsburg
  • Grad. School, Medical Physics, Univ. of Texas-Houston
  • Grad. School, Physics LSU
  • Grad. School, Physics Vanderbilt Univ.
  • Grad. School, Physics, Colorado School of Mines
  • Grad. School, Physics, Purdue University
  • Grad. School, Physics, Univ. of Illinios-Urbana
  • Grad. School, Texas A & M, Physics
  • Grad. School, Univ. of Colorado, Psychopharmacology
  • Graduate School Astronomy, Dartmouth
  • Gymnastics coach
  • High School teacher, applying to Medical school
  • Investor (Owner, T. Lee Enterprises)
  • Jet Propulsion Lab, Cal Tech, Robotics
  • Journalist (Shreveport Times)
  • Kinesiology ( graduate school, LSU)
  • Law School at Loyola University, Chicago
  • Librarian, MS Library Science
  • Mathematician (Associate Professor of Mathematics, Louisiana College)
  • MBA program LSUS
  • Mechanical Engineer
  • Mechanical Engineer (Graduate degree in business management, Project leader, Launch Control, BMW North Am.)
  • Mechanical Engineer (Mission Analyst, LTV Aerospace Defense Co.)
  • Mechanical Engineer (Product Design Engineer, Nellcore Inc., designs hand held medical devices)
  • Medical Physicist (Radiation physicist overseeing five radiation treatment centers)
  • Medical School at Southwestern, Dallas
  • Medical School in Texas
  • Medical School LSUMC-Shreveport
  • Medical School, Tulane University
  • Operations Manager (Warmack and Co.)
  • Owner (University Air & Heat)
  • Peace Corps
  • Petroleum Engineer (Coutret & Associates)
  • Philosopher, President & Publisher of Shreveport Journal
  • Physician
  • Physician (Assistant Professor of Cardiology and Dir. of the Cardiac Cath Lab at Bowman Gray School of Medicine)
  • Physician (Family Practice
  • Physician (Raber Medical Group
  • Physician (Radiologist)
  • Physician (Surgeon)
  • Physician (Veterans Administration Hospital)
  • Physicist (Associate Scientist, National Cancer Institute, FCRDC)
  • Physicist (now graduate student at Tulane University)
  • Physicist (now in graduate school at Purdue)
  • Physicist (now in graduate school, University of Florida)
  • Physicist (Professor of Physics, Centenary College)
  • President, Semco, Inc.
  • Program Manager, US Navy (attended Nuclear Power School, USN)
  • Psychologist (Consulting Service Center)
  • Real Estate (President & Owner of Fess Associates )
  • Reservoir Engineer (Exxon, PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of Illlinois)
  • Risk Assessment Analyst, Dallas
  • Salesman (Transportation Equipment, TRW Defense Systems
  • Science Writing (History of Science & Technology )
  • Systems Analyst (Exxon)
  • Systems Analyst, State of Texas
  • Systems Engineer (Scitor Corp)
  • Technician (Atlas Refinery)
  • US Navy (civilian) Astronomer
  • Veterinarian (LSU School of Vetenary Medicine)
  • Work at a Medical School
  • Working Ark-La_Tex area
  • Working at Pie Works, plan on opening one in Calif
  • Working Houston area
  • Working in New Orleans
  • Working Shreveport area

Add Your Outcome to the List

If you're a Centenary physics alumni, be sure to let us know where you are now.

If you are a prospective student, dream big — we can't wait to add you to this list someday.