Master's:
For the Thesis MS degree, 21 credits of graduate courses and 9 additional credits of Master's Thesis Research, and a thesis, are required. For the Non-Thesis MS degree, 30 credits of graduate courses are required. Either of these degrees may (but need not) be part of a Ph.D. program. The courses submitted must be approved in advance by the student's Advisory Committee. An average of B or better must be maintained. For the Thesis MS degree, a final oral examination is required. There is no foreign language or residency requirement.

Doctorate:
The student must complete a plan of study of extent and quality satisfactory to the student's Advisory Committee and the Dean of the Graduate School. Ordinarily, the program will include at least 15 credits beyond the master's degree, and 15 credits of Doctoral Dissertation Research. An average of B or better must be maintained. At least one year must be in residence. The General Examination must be taken by the end of the fifth semester. There is no foreign language or residency requirement.

The UConn Physics Department is committed to maintaining a culturally diverse, non-gender-biased environment conducive to academic success. When Cynthia Peterson joined the Physics Department in 1968, she was the lone woman among her male peers and one of the few tenure-track faculty in physics in the country. Today, the department has nine teaching and tenure-track female faculty members.Our thriving Women in Physics professional group hosts a weekly coffee hour support group, as well as informative meetings with visiting female speakers. Our distinguished faculty and top-notch graduate students hail from around the world. This diversity is celebrated at our annual potluck dinner holiday party, hosted by the Physics Graduate Student Association (PGSA), which features a smorgasbord of multicultural dishes. The PGSA also sponsors weekly seminars, our annual department Ice Cream Social, a graduate student Halloween party, and our end of the year department picnic. The UConn Physics Department holds colloquia every Friday afternoon, an event preceded by refreshments and open to students and the public.