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Information for Prospective students

Welcome!

In November we will start accepting applications for September 2013 and January 2014 admission.

Applicants whose applications are received and completed by January 31 are automatically considered for graduate assistantships and scholarships.

The Department of Physics at the University of Alberta is a comprehensive department offering an excellent graduate education in most major fields of physics. We are proud of the contributions that our graduate students make to research and teaching. We provide graduate students with excellent research supervisors, a good selection of courses and a friendly working environment. Students are guaranteed a minimum level of funding through a combination of teaching and research assistantships (see the "Financial Support" pages for new MSc and PhD students) during the first 2 years of study for the MSc degree and 4 years of study for the PhD degree.

Answers to most questions you will have about applying for, and being part of, our graduate program can be found on our webpages. If you have specific questions not answered anywhere here, please do contact us. You might also find the information through our Links page, which includes links to the Faculty of Graduate Studies & Research and the International Centre.

Please check out the different Research Groups and feel free to email any potential research supervisor about his or her research program and opportunities for new graduate students in his or her research group.

The University of Alberta GRADUATE PROGRAM in PHYSICS

The Department of Physics at the University of Alberta is one of the leaders in physics teaching and research in Canada. We are proud of our high standards and of our international reputation in research and teaching. We offer the following thesis-based degree programs:

At the University of Alberta, our graduate students play an important part in, and make significant contributions to, our research and teaching efforts. They are an integral part of the team that maintains our standards. We make every effort to ensure that their years of graduate studies are personally and academically rewarding.

This website outlines our graduate programs and describes the research interests of our faculty members.

We invite you to consider graduate studies in Physics at the University of Alberta.

Information about our Master of Science (MSc) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programs is found on the graduate program menu in Academic programs