MSc Optical Sciences
Optical Sciences offered by the University of Arizona prepares students to enter challenging careers in the optics industry or to continue the pursuit of knowledge with doctoral degrees.
Quick Facts |
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Full-time Duration: | 1 year |
Starting in: | August |
Tuition Fee: | $10,063 per semester |
Location: | Tucson, United States / Online |
Career
Its graduates become engineers, designers and technical managers. They work in hardware design, medical and biomedical technology, lasers and electro-optical systems, fiber optics and communications, measurements, manufacturing, and consumer technology. They work for large corporations, small companies, government agencies, universities, hospitals and research centers. Many even work for themselves, having started successful businesses or gone into consulting.
Optical Sciences offered by the University of Arizona has no core curriculum, allowing the program considerable flexibility. A student may limit coursework to a single topic area, or he or she may instead form the nucleus of the master’s degree around the core courses for the Ph.D. in Optical Sciences — none of which are required.
“Choosing the Master’s program for Physiological Sciences at the University of Arizona was one of the best decisions I could have made in my education. Our department is warm and collaborative, offering an array of research topics and techniques underneath a vast and integrative umbrella of physiology. Beyond my research experience, I was presented with teaching opportunities, which I feel honed my skill of scientific communication. Having the dynamic research/teaching/class schedule not only kept me active but helped me reinforce material in multiple contexts. Overall, this program was exactly what I wanted in my segway into the medical sciences… and with my teaching assistantship paying for my tuition, how could I say no?”
Andrew Wojtanowski // MS 2016
Study Content
- Fundamentals of Applied Optics Laboratory
- Fundamentals of Physical Optics Laboratory
- Lasers and Solid-State Devices Laboratory
- Mathematical Optics Laboratory
- Optical Testing Laboratory