Physics offers students a well-rounded education, with a broad array of knowledge in the physical and natural sciences, including chemistry, astronomy, mathematics and engineering. Students who study physics will develop several other traits useful for employment in non-physics fields and will develop skills in programming, numerical literacy, creativity and problem solving.
Physics is present in many specialized fields, including astronomy, astrophysics and nanotechnology. There are also medical physics, geophysics, microelectronics, engineering, chemistry and biophysics opportunities, as well.
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At Marshall, we take pride in excellence in both research and teaching and our success is partly due to having world-class, award-winning faculty who are not only experts in their fields, but are also active in research.
Graduate students have a wide range of opportunities available for anyone interested in pursuing research. Topics addressed are diverse, spanning from theoretical condensed matter research, nanoparticles, soft condensed matter research, water filtration, laser and phonon physics, gravitation, relativity and numerical physics, optical astronomy, young sun-like stars, photovoltaic devices and thin film solar cells, and more, just ask or email one of our faculty.
Students in the master of science in physics program take advantage of several facilities on Marshall’s campus in West Virginia, including the “BigGreen” cluster, which features 276 central processing unit cores, 552 gigabytes of memory and more than 10 terabytes of storage. The Molecular and Biological Imaging Center (MBIC) provides students with instrumentation, infrastructure and a learning environment required to support the research and teaching programs at Marshall. Recently, a portable Atomic Force Microscope was also acquired for use with research and teaching, as well as a JEOL JSM-7200F Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope and a Lulzbot 3D printer.
- Research Engineer
- Data Analyst
- Diagnostic Medical Physicist
- Therapeutic Medical Physicist
- Teacher
- Clinical Scientist
- Astronomer
- Doctor
Applicants should follow the admissions process described in this catalog or at the Graduate Admissions website at www.marshall.edu/ graduate/admissions/how-to-apply-for-admission (http:// www.marshall.edu/graduate/admissions/how-to-apply-for-admission/).
In addition:
- The applicant must have an undergraduate Grade Point Average (GPA) of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale in their major;
- Applicants with a GPA between 2.5 and 3.0 in their major may be provisionally admitted to the program.