Graduate Certificate in Photonics at Duke University

Programme overview

The Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics offers a certificate encouraging graduate students to gain multidisciplinary photonics skills. It accommodates terminal MS and PhD students admitted to participating departments.

Faculty: The Graduate School | Department: Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics | Location: Durham, NC, United States

What you will study

Requires a survey course (Introduction to Photonics, or Advanced Optics or Advances in Photonics as alternatives), three approved courses, one formal FIP Seminar Series presentation, attendance at four FIP seminars a year, and for PhD students two FIP members on the dissertation committee.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Open to MS and PhD students admitted to Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, or Physics. Students are encouraged to meet the FIP DGS before the end of their second semester.

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Apply through the official page: https://gradschool.duke.edu/admissions/

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