Master of Science in Physics

The physics department offers both a non-thesis master’s degree and a doctoral degree that can prepare you for your personal educational and career goals. The MS program allows you the flexibility to tailor your degree to serve either as a springboard to a PhD program or as critical training for jobs in industry, with specializations in areas such as geosciences, engineering, polymer science, and data science. The PhD program is designed to train you for careers in academia or the private sector through coursework in foundational material (classical and quantum mechanics, statistical physics and electrodynamics) and a primary focus on original research supervised by faculty members.

THREE ACADEMIC RECOMMENDATIONS - The Graduate School will e-mail referees with instructions for electronically submitting recommendations. Note that for Accelerated MS students, one of these letters should be from your undergraduate advisor, and it should attest that your planned MS degree can be completed within a year of completing your undergraduate degree.OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPTS of all undergraduate and graduate institutions attended (1 copy of each). Unofficial copies are acceptable for review purposes, however official transcripts will be required if enrolling.OFFICIAL GRE scores, both General and Physics, are not required for the M.S. program but may optionally be submitted.