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2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

Physics, M.S.

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Degree Requirements

The M.S. degree in physics is only available to students enrolled in the Ph.D. program in physics at SMU. To earn the M.S. en route to the Ph.D, students must complete either 33 credit hours of approved graduate coursework according to the requirements laid out in the Ph.D. program description , or 30 credit hours of courses plus three hours of a master’s thesis (PHYS 6398 ). This requirement entails one fewer elective for the M.S. than for the Ph.D.

Total: 33 Credit Hours

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