Admission criteria

1. Student must be a pursing a BA or BS degree in physics.
2. Student must have a 3.5 GPA.
3. Student must be identified as an “Exceptional Undergraduate Student” by evidence of strong interest in and aptitude for research, which could be in the form of participation in a summer REU program, enrollment in a special problems research course with a faculty member or volunteer work with a research group. A recommendation letter from the research supervisor will be considered in the evaluation.
4. Student must have completed 75 credit hours before being “conditionally” admitted to the grad track program.
5. Student will seek admission to the program through assistance with the physics student advisor and the undergraduate coordinator; along with at least two letters of faculty endorsement; supporting the student’s exceptional qualities and aptitude for success in the grad track program. The student will need to submit a Toulouse Graduate School “Conditional Admission and Advisor Course Approval form” to ensure the grad track courses will satisfy degree requirements for the student’s bachelor degree.

Program requirements

Any or all of the following four courses may appear on the undergraduate degree plan. These classes will be used for the undergraduate physics electives.

• PHYS 5450 Survey of Solid State Physics
• PHYS 5700 Computational Physics
• PHYS 5710 Advanced Classical Mechanics I
• PHYS 5750 Selected Topics in Materials Physics.

All remaining courses for Physics, BSPHY  must be completed.