Wake Forest University offers both MS and PhD degrees in Physics, combining the resources and professional opportunities of a large research university with the personalized, close faculty-student mentoring of a small liberal arts institution. We have strong research areas in computational and experimental biophysics, condensed matter physics (including organic electronics), quantum materials and optics, and astrophysics.
Key Program Highlights:
- Applications for Fall 2025 are open with a deadline of January 8, 2025. We no longer require GRE scores.
- Our department consists of 15 tenured or tenure-track faculty members and about 35 graduate students.
- Graduates of our program secure positions in academia, industry, finance, and government labs.
- PhD students receive a tuition & fees scholarship and stipend ($29725 for 2024-25, and expected to increase for 2025-26) as either RAs or TAs and MS students receive a 75% tuition waiver.
- PhD students may also be eligible for Center for Functional Materials fellowships, or after their first year, NIH T32 Training Grant fellowships, depending on their research group.
- We maintain state-of-the-art experimental and computational facilities, including the DEAC HPC cluster.
- Our faculty members are affiliated with various interdisciplinary centers, including the Center for Nanotechnology & Molecular Materials, the Center for Molecular Signaling, the Center for Functional Materials on the Reynolda Campus, the Center for Structural Biology, the Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the Center for Redox Biology in Medicine on the Health Sciences Campus.