Admission and Degree Requirements

Admission Requirements:

1. Conditions for acceptance in the Ph.D. are subjected to the admission requirements enumerated in the 15th article of the unified law organizing the graduate studies in Saudi universities.
2. The applicant must have a master degree in Physics or equivalent degree.
3. The student must obtain at least 500 score in the TOEFL test or its equivalents (iBT 61, IELTS 5). This condition may be waived for students applying from countries where English is a native language, or for those who got their M.Sc. degree from an English speaking countries.
4. The applicant must obtain a score of at least 600 in the GRE test subject Physics, or pass the departmental admission test.
5. Competitive applicants will be subjected to the departmental interview.

Degree requirements:

1. Successful completion of Quantum Mechanics Phys 652 (3 Credits).
2. Successful completion of 15 credit hours of graduate courses selected from the pool of course offered by the department.
3. Successful completion and defense of the dissertation.