Physical Sciences

Discover Physical Sciences at Iowa State University, home of some of the nation’s best academic programs in these disciplines.

Our nationally ranked Chemistry department will prepare you for an outstanding future. Improve medicines or create better plastics.

Check out our $75 million chemistry building expansion.

Study the chemical and physical principles of life processes in Biochemistry and Biophysics. Examine enzyme function or test theories in plant biotechnology.

Examine magnetism and wave motion in Physics. You can do research on thermodynamics or subatomic particles with your professor. Gaze the stars and stellar systems in our Astronomy program.

Forecast the weather or chase tornadoes in Meteorology. Be a broadcast meteorologist on ISU's television channel.

Dig into mineral exploration or do analyses in Geology. Study at our summer Wyoming geology field camp where you'll see geology, up-close and personal. You can teach in high school or middle school with an Earth Science major.