Research & Academics

• Graduate Research Opportunities and Brochures
• Graduate Handbook 
• Courses
  • Graduate Courses
  • Full List of Courses (offered this semester or not)
  • Practice Exams
  • Degree Requirements
• Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Training

Full-Time status requirements

  Full-time enrollment requires:

• For Masters without assistantship: 9 credits per semester
• For Masters with assistantship: 6 credits per semester
• For Doctoral without assistantship: 6 credits per semester
• For Doctoral with assistantship: 3 credits per semester
• For Doctoral students who have passed all required comprehensive exams (subject exams and oral subject exam, and fully approved in grad plan): 1 credit per semester.

Documents and Resources

• Draft Dissertations for Review
• Forms for Graduate Students
• Source of LaTeX format thesis templates

Graduate Student Organizations 

• Physics Graduate Organization (PGO)
• Women and Minorities in Physical Sciences
• Links at other MSU sites of Interest to P-A graduate students
• More...

Events & Meetings

• Events & Calendar info
• Physics and Astronomy Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes - to get access, you need to sign in with your msu.edu account, not your google or other account.