Baylor Physics Graduate Program
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Professor Walter Wilcox
Graduate Program Director
Office: BSB E325,
Baylor Science Building
Walter_Wilcox@baylor.edu
Phone: (254) 710-2510
Mailing Address:
Physics Department
P.O. Box 97316
Waco, TX 76798-7316
For Information Requests, use the Graduate Physics Inquiry Form |
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Graduate and undergraduate students in physics at Baylor University experience the benefits of a major American university, large enough to support a superior academic program while still allowing opportunities only available within a close-knit community of scholars. A campus population of about 14,000, with a graduate student population of almost 11%, allows Baylor undergraduate and graduate students to enjoy close working relationships with their major professors.
Undergraduate students can join graduate students in one of the research labs or in one of the active theoretical groups. Unlike many major universities, undergraduates are encouraged to join one of the active research groups within the department and conduct independent research. Graduate students are involved at every level of the research process and have almost unlimited access to their major professor. In addition, they are involved in a variety of teaching activities thus enhancing their opportunities for later employment at the university level.
 The University ranks first among the 73 American doctoral granting private institutions in the total number of baccalaureate recipients who have earned doctorates in the professional fields; following Baylor are Harvard, Columbia, Brigham Young, Cornell, Northwestern, New York University, Syracuse, Stanford, and the University of Pennsylvania. Baylor is also one of the oldest coeducational universities in the United States and one of six Phi Beta Kappa universities in Texas.
 The Physics Department offers the Doctor of Philosophy degree and both thesis and non-thesis master's of science and master's of arts degrees. Current enrollment for advanced degrees is approximately 30 students from all over the world (including Sri Lanka, China, and Nepal). Experimental research within the department focuses on atomic, molecular, nuclear, elementary particle, plasma, surface and space physics. Various theoretical groups are reseraching astrophysics, cosmology, gravity, high energy particle physics, nuclear, quantum-optical, solid-state and space physics.
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