Physics
University of East Anglia UEA
UCAS Code: F303 | Master of Physics (Hons)
University of East Anglia UEA
UCAS Code: F303 | Master of Physics (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
including Mathematics and Physics. Where applicable Science A Levels awarded by an English Exam board require a pass in the practical element. General Studies and Critical Thinking not accepted. Contextual offer: BBB including Mathematics and Physics. Where applicable Science A Levels awarded by an English Exam board require a pass in the practical element. General Studies and Critical Thinking not accepted.
Access to HE Diploma
including 12 credits in Mathematics and 12 credits in Physics.
Principal subjects and A-level combinations are considered - please contact us.
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
including HL6 Mathematics (Applications and Interpretation or Analysis and Approaches) and HL5 Physics, or HL5 Mathematics (Applications and Interpretation or Analysis and Approaches) and HL6 Physics.
Scottish Advanced Higher
including Mathematics and Physics.
Scottish Higher
including Mathematics and Physics.
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About this course
**Overview**
Our flagship Physics Masters course is a highly flexible programme. You can study physics in more depth, either for your own interest or as a path to a career as a professional scientist.
Besides the core modules, we offer a wide variety of optional modules to help you shape your degree path. Most of our teaching is in small classes. You’ll study different subjects, like astrophysics, quantum physics, geophysics, fluid mechanics, and computing. We have friendly and approachable staff who have time for you.
In both the third and fourth years, you'll undertake projects in your desired direction. Many students use their projects to discover the research direction of our staff. Others may have their own ideas they want to pursue. You can also work on a medical physics project in collaboration with the hospital next to campus. The fourth-year project can relate to the third-year one or be on a new topic.
Your degree in Physics will allow you to explore a wide range of subjects, including astrophysics, quantum physics, geophysics, fluid mechanics, and computing. You'll be using our top-class facilities and high-tech equipment.
During our physics course, you’ll learn many important skills, such as math, communication, and teamwork. These skills will help you become a scientist or work in different jobs when you graduate. You’ll also get good at things like research, solving tricky problems, and computing, which are skills that employers really like. So, when you finish the course, you’ll be a highly employable graduate.
**Disclaimer**
Course details are subject to change. You should always confirm the details on the provider's website: **www.uea.ac.uk**
Modules
In your first year, you’ll be given a foundation in a broad range of physics topics, including quantum mechanics, astrophysics, mathematics and relativity. You’ll build on this basis in your second year with teaching in intermediate physics topics and advanced mathematics, while beginning to customise your degree with a number of optional modules in diverse fields. You can choose to complement your compulsory modules with a focus on electronics, energy, oceans, tectonics or meteorology. In your third year, you’ll have an even greater choice of modules to study alongside advanced physics topics and an independent research project. This MPhys degree culminates in a fourth and final year which allows you to tackle advanced, Masters level topics through modules and a dissertation in cutting-edge physics.
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University of East Anglia UEA
School of Engineering, Mathematics and Physics
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Although the subject has seen a bit of resurgence in recent years, the UK is still felt to be short of physics graduates, and in particular physicists training as teachers. If you want a career in physics research — in all sorts of areas, from atmospheric physics to lasers - you'll probably need to take a doctorate, and so have a think about where you would like to do that and how you might fund it (the government funds many physics doctorates, so you might not find it as hard as you think). With that in mind, it's not surprising that just over a fifth of physics graduates go on to take doctorates when they finish their degree, and well over a third of physicists take some kind of postgraduate study in total. Physics is highly regarded and surprisingly versatile, which is why physics graduates who decide not to stay in education are more likely to go into well-paid jobs in the finance industry than they are to go into science. The demand and versatility of physics degrees goes to explain why they're amongst the best-paid science graduates.
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