MA/MS in Astronomy and Astrophysics

This master's degree is not a separate admission route. It is open to doctoral students in the department, who may take it on the way to the PhD or finish with it as a terminal degree once they meet its conditions. The program expects graduate-level command of astronomy and physics, covering core physics and astrophysics, the dynamics of space and astrophysical plasmas, and the observational methods used to study the sky. Students also carry out directed research and present it to faculty and to a scientific audience. To qualify, a student completes thirty-two graduate units with grades of B- or better, with at least twenty of those units in astronomy courses at the 700 level. No foreign language is required.