MA in Physics and Astronomy

SUNY Stony Brook University

The goal of the MA in Physics degree program is to offer a superb graduate education that prepares you for either the challenges of today's workplace or the requirements of a Ph.D. program. To satisfy these diverse demands our MA program offers a great deal of flexibility ranging form an option focused on the needs for working in industry to an option that includes mostly advanced graduate courses. More than 50% of our incoming class goes on to a PhD program, either or own or elsewhere. The outcomes for the classes that started between Fall 2017 and Fall 2021 are shown below.M.A. Degree RequirementsA MA degree requires a minimum of 30 credits in graduate courses that have been deemed appropriate by the Physics graduate program. No more than 6 credits of comparable graduate courses taken at another university can be transferred . Transfer eligibility must first be approved in writing by the professor teaching the comparable course at Stony Brook and then by the Graduate Program Director, who will authorize departmental approval. Such credit transfers should be requested in the student's first semester at Stony Brook. The requirements for the Master's degree can be satisfied in two ways.