UMass Boston welcomes applications from prospective students around the globe.
In addition to UMass Boston’s general and program-specific graduate application requirements, please review these requirements specifically relevant to international applicants:
Bachelor's Degree Equivalency
International applicants must submit evidence that they have completed the equivalent of a regionally accredited, U.S. university-level bachelor’s degree program. Acceptable documents can include official copies of diplomas, certified final degree certificates, and notation on final transcript of degree and date awarded. Most international 4-year degrees are recognized as being equivalent. Most international 3-year degrees, including the Indian Bachelor of Arts, Sciences and Commerce degrees, are not considered to be equivalent.
If we are unable to determine equivalence, we may require applicants to submit an external evaluation from the Center for Educational Documentation (www.cedevaluations.com). Credential evaluations from other agencies may not be accepted. Credential Evaluation Reports will not be accepted in place of official transcripts.
Transcripts
Most transcripts can be requested electronically through the Centralized Application System (CAS). Original hardcopy transcripts must be sealed in an envelope from the issuing institution. We cannot accept scanned or emailed transcripts. All materials submitted to the University become the property of the University and cannot be returned to the applicant or forwarded to any third party.
If your transcript is in a language other than English, each page must be accompanied by an English translation, validated by an official public translator.
TOEFL PBT 550
TOEFL IBT 79
IELTS Academic 6.0
PTE Academic 53
The UMass Boston Applied Physics Master’s Program is built around the idea that physics is an approach to thinking about and solving problems rather than a specific set of skills. Our goal is to train students in this approach and give them a general toolbox of techniques that will allow them to pursue quantitative problems, regardless of the specific fields in which they find themselves. To that end, the curriculum for the program is a balance of theoretical and experimental courses, simultaneously sharpening students understanding of phenomena, the theoretical models that explain them, the measurements that illuminate them, and, most importantly, the connections between the phenomena, the measurements and the models.
This generalist approach serves a broad spectrum of student needs. As a result, we seek students from a range of backgrounds. Some of our students come to us straight out of undergraduate physics programs, unsatisfied with their bachelor's level understanding but not necessarily ready to commit to the five to ten years of a PhD program. Others come from the Massachusetts technical community where they have found that their further professional advancement is hindered by their lack of a post graduate degree, experiencing the so called parchment ceiling. Many foreign students use our program to normalize their training to American academic standards on their way to PhDs at other institutions, bridging between the academic systems of their home countries and that of the United States. We also serve students who are moving between fields: students who having trained in one discipline and wish to transition to physics.
Our goal as a program is to provide opportunity to the full range of students for whom a master’s degree in applied physics is an essential step along their path to a fulfilling career.
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Experimental/Applied Courses:
PHYSIC 600 Electronic Instrumentation I: Analog
PHYSIC 601 Electronic Instrumentation II: Digital
PHYSIC 602 Laser Optics Laboratory
PHYSIC 607 Experiments in Squishy Physics
PHYSIC 610 Topics in Medical Imaging
PHYSIC 632 Advanced Laser Optics (with Lab)
PHYSIC 645 Cancer Biophysics
PHYSIC 662 Computational Science
Theory Courses:
PHYSIC 611 Theory of Classical Mechanics and Fluid Mechanics
PHYSIC 612 Electromagnetic Theory
PHYSIC 613 Quantum Mechanics, Atomic, and Molecular Physics
PHYSIC 614 Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
PHYSIC 616 Mathematical Methods for Physicists
PHYSIC 623 Quantum Mechanics: Scattering and Many-Body Physics
PHYSIC 638 Quantum Measurement Theory
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