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Study Details: MSc: 1 year full-time
This MSc programme is designed to prepare you for a research career in academia or industry by introducing advanced ideas and techniques that are applicable in a wide range of research areas, while emphasising the underlying physics concepts.
These entry requirements are for the 2026-27 academic year and requirements for future academic years may differ. Entry requirements for the 2027-28 academic year will be published on 1 Oct 2026.
The theoretical physics MSc degree is a challenging degree for well-qualified, highly motivated and independent students. The minimum entrance requirement is normally a UK 1st class degree in physics or mathematics with significant theoretical physics content, or its international equivalent, although applications will be considered on an individual basis.
We are looking for significant knowledge of the following physics topics at advanced or intermediate undergraduate level:
Classical/Lagrangian Dynamics
Statistical/Thermal physics
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During the MSc programme you will take three compulsory courses:
Problem Solving in Theoretical Physics
Research Skills for Theoretical Physics
Dissertation in Theoretical/Mathematical Physics
Option courses
You will select between 50 and 90 credits of Standard Courses. Courses will include, among others:
General Relativity
Advanced Cosmology
Radiation Processes in Astrophysics
Galaxy Evolution
Hamiltonian Dynamics
Classical Eletrodynamics
Quantum Theory
Symmetries of Particles and Fields
Quantum Field Theory
Gauge Theories in Particle Physics
Advanced Statistical Physics
Electronic Structure Theory
Geometry and Physics of Soft Condensed Matter
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