Thank you for your interest in the graduate program at the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego.
Application Deadline for 2013-14 is: January 15, 2013.
Online Graduate Applications for 2013-14 will be available in mid-August, 2012. Please note that the Department will begin processing of applications starting September 1, 2012.
Web Address: https://gradapply.ucsd.edu/
In order to process your application we require the following documents:
The GRE examinations must be taken no later than November in order for the scores to be considered by the Admissions Committee. Incomplete files and applications received after December 15th will be considered only if space is available.
Entering graduate students are required to have a sound knowledge of undergraduate mechanics, electricity and magnetism, to have had senior courses or their equivalent in atomic and quantum physics, nuclear physics, and thermodynamics; and to have taken upper division laboratory work.
Attention International Applicants: 2013-14.
Foreign students from non-English speaking countries are required to demonstrate proficiency in English via the TOEFL/IELTS exam.
The minimum TOEFL score required is 550 for paper-based (PBT), 213 for computer-based (CBT) and 80 for internet based (iBT). The minimum International English Language Testing System (IELTS) score required is Band Score 7. The Test for Spoken English (TSE) is highly recommended.
International Students whose native language is not English will be required to demonstrate English language proficiency before they may serve as teaching assistants.
Revised for 2013-14 admissions