马塞诸斯州大学波士顿

Pursue the highest level of academic expertise in applied physics.

马塞诸斯州大学波士顿's 应用物理博士 program is for current 马塞诸斯州大学波士顿 Applied Physics master's students who want to earn a PhD. 从20世纪80年代初开始, long before it became fashionable, 马塞诸斯州大学波士顿's Physics Department has offered a terminal master's degree in applied physics. Because of the match between the skills taught in that program and the needs of employers in the technology sector of the economy, the MS program has grown to become one of the largest and most successful terminal master's programs in the country. Over the last couple of decades, the 研究 profile of the 马塞诸斯州大学波士顿 Physics Department has developed to the point where it became desirable to include the option of continuing on to a PhD for some of our master's students.

Because of this history, the 应用物理博士 has a structure that is distinct from other programs. All students must apply to the 应用物理硕士 program, even if they already have a master's degree. Students who already hold a master's degree may receive transfer credits for some of their previous coursework.

Where it makes sense to extend from a master's thesis into a doctoral dissertation, students in the master's program who develop a 研究 relationship with a faculty member are transferred into the PhD upon successful completion of a portion of the Qualifying Exam. 在极少数情况下, where a student enters with an existing relationship with a faculty member, and where they have sufficiently strong preparation to pass qualifiers upon entrance into the master's program, those students will be advanced into the PhD after their first semester.