Graduate Education

    The Department of Physics offers flexible PhD programs designed to provide a comprehensive, advanced education in physics while allowing students to tailor their studies to their specific interests. The programs combine graduate-level coursework, research apprenticeships, teaching experience, and thesis research. The Department offers curricula leading to the following degrees:

    • Ph.D. in Physics (M.S. Physics available en route)
      • Specialization in Computational Nueroscience
      • Specialization in Computational Science
      • Specialization in Quantitative Biology
    • Ph.D. in Physics (Biophysics) (M.S. Physics available en route)

    For the Physics Graduate Program entering graduate students are required to have a sound knowledge of undergraduate physics, including junior/senior level courses in classical mechanics and electricity/magnetism, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and quantum physics, and to have taken upper-division laboratory courses.