The department graduates around 25 students in a typical year and provides summer and academic year research opportunities to students in engineering, applied physics, soft matter physics, biophysics, geophysics, theoretical physics, and physics education. The college offers a comprehensive benefits package, including a 9% retirement match, contributions to eligible employees'' health savings accounts, a significant tuition discount (up to a 90% reduction) at ACM, GLCA, and ELCA colleges and universities for employees'' children, and generous paid time off.