Physics

Graduate Program

The Physics Department offers programs leading to a PhD in physics with an optional MA degree. Our research specialties include experimental particle physics, particle astrophysics, theoretical particle physics and cosmology, molecular biophysics, experimental biophysics, experimental condensed matter physics, theoretical quantum condensed matter physics, statistical physics, polymer physics, and computational physics. There are numerous interdisciplinary opportunities, particularly with the School of Engineering and the Center for Photonics Research.

We have approximately 40 faculty and approximately 110 graduate students; a typical incoming class is 15-25 students. Through a combination of teaching fellowships, research assistantships, and University fellowships the department provides full tuition scholarships, stipends, and student medical insurance for essentially all graduate students.

Boston University is a private university with a faculty of 4,000 and a student population of 33,000. The Physics Department is centrally located on the main Charles River Campus. Major resources include the Scientific Instrumentation Facility machine shops, the engineers and technicians of the Electronics Design Facility, and the supercomputer clusters of the Center for Computational Science. Boston is a major metropolitan center of cultural, scholarly, scientific, and technological activity. There are many major academic institutions in the area, providing students an array of opportunites with which to supplement their educaton at Boston University.