Wake Forest University offers both MS and PhD degrees in Physics, and provides the resources and professional opportunities of a large research university while maintaining the atmosphere and close faculty-student mentoring of a small liberal arts school. We specialize in computational and experimental biophysics, computational and experimental condensed matter including organic electronics and nanotechnology, optics, and astrophysics.
Our applications for Fall 2023 opened today September 15th with a December 15th deadline. Our graduate school offers application fee waivers under many circumstances. We do require the general GRE. Our department has 15 tenured or tenure-track graduate faculty and 40 graduate students. Our students find excellent jobs in academia, industry, finance, and government labs. Our program offers a guaranteed tuition waiver and a stipend for all PhD students and a 74% tuition waiver for Master’s degree students. PhD students are also eligible for competitive Hearst Diversity fellowships. Depending on their area of study, PhD students may also be eligible for Center for Functional Materials fellowships, or after their first year for NIH T32 Training grant fellowships in Structural and Computational Biophysics or Redox Biology in Medicine. Wake Forest University ranks #28th among National Universities (US News & World Report), and College Factual recently ranked our physics doctoral program as #43 in the US. We have extensive experimental and computational resources and maintain state-of-the-art facilities including our DEAC HPC cluster.
Our faculty are members of numerous centers such as the Center for Nanotechnology & Molecular Materials, the Center for Molecular Signaling, the Center for Functional Materials on our main Reynolda Campus, and the Center for Structural Biology, the Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the Center for Redox Biology in Medicine on the Health Sciences Campus.