Physics - MASTER'S (MS)

DEGREE OVERVIEW

The objective of graduate work in physics is to prepare the student for continued professional and scholarly development as a physicist. The physics Master of Science degree programs are designed to give the student advanced training in all fundamental areas of physics through formal courses and the options of some degree of specialization or participation in original research in one of a variety of projects directed by the faculty.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

The physics Master of Science degree programs are designed to give the student advanced training in all fundamental areas of physics through formal courses and the options of some degree of specialization or participation in original research in one of a variety of projects directed by the faculty. It prepares the student for continued professional and scholarly development as a physicist. The program can be completed within two years.

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• Admissions requirements and degree curriculum
• Degree information in the University Catalog
• Physics faculty

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

• Medical Physicist
• Computer Programmer
• Two-Year College or High School Physics Teacher
• Aerospace, Chemical, or Electrical Engineer
• Atmospheric Scientist
• Hydrologist

WHY CHOOSE US?

1. The Department of Physics has outstanding undergraduate and graduate programs from B.S. through the Ph.D. The Physics Department has a faculty committed to teaching excellence while vigorously pursuing nationally and internationally recognized research in many areas.
2. Students at the undergraduate and graduate levels are encouraged to participate with our outstanding faculty in these research programs.
3. Diverse physics research areas: Astrophysics, Biomedical Physics, Center for Nanostructured Materials, Chaos & Nonlinear Physics, Theoretical and Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, High Energy and Nuclear Physics, High Energy Physics Group, Neutrino Physics Group, Neutrinos and Rare Event Searches, Medical Bio Physics, Nano-Bio Physics, Nanostructured Magnetic Materials, Nanostructured Materials, and Space Physics. and Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics.
4. U.S. News & World Report’s 2021 “Best Graduate Schools” list ranks the College of Science’s graduate program in physics No. 119.
5. Marketable skills gained: gathering information, using original sources, applying theoretical approaches to problems, establishing hypotheses and defining problems, synthesizing and analyzing information, and experiment design, testing, and validation.

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