Tracks

The Master's Programme in Engineering Physics is a broad educational programme which allows you to specialise within one field of physics. The programme is also designed to give you a large freedom to tailor your own competence profile within physics. Subsequently, there are only very few mandatory courses that all students within the programme have to take. Those two courses are:

AK2030 Theory and methodology of science (Natural and technological sciences), 4.5 credits

SH2007 Research methodology in physics, 3.0 credits

These courses are normally taken during autumn semester in year 2, but we strongly recommend that students who plan for exchange studies during this period of time, should take the course SH2007 already in period 2, year 1.

Choosing a track

You must choose a track already when you start your studies at the programme. This track will become you main profile within physics, although it still gives you a large freedom of choice. A track has 2 mandatory track courses and you must also choose a minimum of 25 credits from a list of conditionally elective courses within the track. This ensures that you will reach a sufficient depth in your studies to be eligible for the master thesis course within your track. The programme has 5 tracks and each track can lead to several specialisations. These tracks are:

Theoretical physics (TFYA)

Subatomic & astrophysics (TFYB)

Optical physics (TFYC)

Nanophysics (TFYD)

Biomedical physics (TFYE)

Even if you have started on one track, it is usually possible to change tracks later on. In such a case, please contact the programme director for a discussion.