Prospective MS Students

Minimum requirements:

1. A bachelor’s degree in physics or closely related discipline and a minimum of 20 semester hours of undergraduate physics, including upper division mechanics, electricity and magnetism, introductory quantum mechanics, and thermal physics, and approved mathematics courses in calculus and differential equations. The student must the Graduate School's Minimum Admission Requirements to Masters Degree Programs.
2. International applicants are required to provide evidence of English Language Proficiency. Please see the “Language Proficiency Requirements” section at this Graduate School website.

(Meeting the minimum department standards does not entitle an applicant to admission. Meeting such standards only insures consideration of the application.)

Admission procedure:

Required Documents:

1. CV.
2. All undergraduate (and graduate, if any) transcripts.
3. Personal Statement.
4. (If English Proficiency Exam is needed): TOEFL or IELTS or Duolingo score.
5. (If GPA is not on 4.0 scale): Transcript evaluation. (Reports from the free Scholaro GPA calculator or WES iGPA calculator are acceptable. To make such a report, please take screenshots showing the input of all courses and the final score, insert them into a document, and upload the document along with the original transcript.)

Recommendations:

Two letters of recommendation are required.

Deadlines

Rolling admission.

Timeline for Review

Decisions are made within a month. Please follow the instructions in the Graduate School website to submit your application.

Only completed applications will be considered for review.

For Ghanaian applicants:

The University of Memphis has an agreement with the Ghana Scholarships Secretariat (GSS). If you are admitted, you can apply to GSS for the Secretariat Scholarship, which will provide both stipend and tuition. The scholarship application can be completed at https://www.scholarshipgh.com.https://www.scholarshipgh.com