Undergraduate Degrees
Our courses are shaped around the needs of our students. We offer unique research and professional training years where the student typically spends the year at either a major Physics facility or in industry. This provides students with the experience and skills that, added to their formal course, gives them a head start on graduation. Indeed many students do so well that their host offer them a job on graduation.
Programmes
We offer both BSc and MPhys Physics degrees. These have a wide range of optional courses on specialist areas of physics, from astronomy to medical physics. The degrees we offer are:
All four are available as both BSc and MPhys degrees. Both the Physics with Nuclear Astrophysics and the Physics with Satellite Technology degrees are unique to Surrey.
The BSc degree may be taken with or without a Professional Training Year. All three options are identical for the first two years, and during those two years students may switch from MPhys to BSc or vice versa. In the third year, BSc students either undertake their optional salaried professional year, or they do their third and final year of study, then graduate. In their third year, MPhys students do one semester of study then go on to their, also paid, Research Year. They then return for a final semester and graduate. On their Professional Training or Research Years, some of our students go all over the world.
Unrivalled Employment Record
Surrey has an unrivalled track record of graduate employment. In Physics, our graduates have gone on to pursue successful careers in scientific research, in industry, in business, in IT, in the media, in teaching and academia..... See our employability page for more details of what our graduates do and earn, and to read what our graduates do in their own words.
National Student Survey
In the latest survey of students, the 2011 survey, we came joint third out of all UK Physics Departments. 98% of our students were satisfied with the course, and 95% found it intellectually stimulating. Further details of the survey results are available.
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Blog
The Department has a blog where you can read our thoughts on the science we are doing, teaching, science in the news ...
University League Tables
The University as a whole is in the top twenty in most league tables. The Department is ranked 15th in the Complete University Guide, and 17th in the Times Good University Guide.
Fees and financial support for 2012 entry
See here for details of the fees and the University's generous financial support scheme, for students starting their degrees in 2012. The basic fee is £9,000 per year, however, this is reduced to £1,050 for both the Professional Training Year of the BSc degree and the Research Year of the MPhys degree, i.e., for our four-year degrees you only pay the full fee for three of these years, plus a reduced fee of currently £1,050 for the fourth year.
Contact us
Undergraduate Admissions Adminstrator: Gemma James.
