Prospective Students

• Application Instructions
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• Graduate Student FAQ
• Financial Support Packages
• Academic Calendar
• On-line Application
• Visit Pittburgh
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Current Students

• Academic Advising
• Graduate Courses
• Special Topics (Graduate Courses)
  
• Fellowship Opportunities
• Requirements for M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees
• Department Guidelines for Financial Support
• Financial Support Through the University
• Funding for Travel
• Duties of Teaching Assistants & Teaching Fellows
• Guidelines for Proctoring Exams
• Doctoral Defense Procedures (.doc file)
• Pitt Electronic Theses and Dissertations page
• FCAS Grad-Guide
  

Other Links

• Dean's Office, Arts and Sciences Graduate Studies [admissions, finacial assistance, etc]
• FAS Grad Guide for New Graduate Students
• Departmental Graduate Programs in the Arts and Sciences
• Graduate and Professonal Bulletin
• University of Pittsburgh Academic Calendar
• Resource Room Guidelines for TAs (word document)

Course Schedules

• Fall 2007 Class Schedule (PDF)
  
• Course Descriptions
• University Registrar

Graduate Academics

The University of Pittsburgh's Department of Physics and Astronomy is internationally recognized as a leader at the frontier of science. With over 500 PhD alumni, it has launched many distinguished careers. The department is maintaining its tradition of excellence and innovation as our faculty and students explore the fundamental laws of nature, from the tiniest sub-nuclear particles to the unimaginably large phenomena in the universe.

Students have a wide range of programs from which to choose a thesis topic. Our faculty members have active research programs in atomic physics, astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology using both ground- and space-based telescopes, particle astrophysics, condensed-matter and solid-state physics, particle physics, chemical physics and biological physics. Their research is frequently carried out in collaboration with scientists from many other fields, including biology, mathematics, medicine, chemistry, engineering, and computer science. In addition to research opportunities in the department, interdisciplinary research opportunities, national and international collaborations, and first-hand contact with cutting-edge science are also available to our graduate students to prepare them for careers as researchers at major academic and industrial laboratories, as educators at universities and colleges, and as independent scientific entrepreneurs.