Research opportunities for graduate students:

Students choose from a wide range of research areas, including many that are interdisciplinary.
Our research labs are superbly equipped. Our students also use the world's leading off-campus facilities, including accelerators, observatories, and spacecraft.

Our internationally-recognized faculty includes:

Fourteen Fellows of the American Physical Society, two Fellows of the American Geophysical Union, and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Our research funding from external agencies:

$18.5 million for fiscal year 2011; this provides abundant funds for support of graduate student research programs

Degrees offered:

• MS in Astronomy
• MS in Physics
• PhD in Physics (for students in both Physics and Astronomy)