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Master Physique fondamentale et applications (M1) at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France

Programme overview

The Master's degree in Fundamental Physics and Applications offers excellent training in a vast field of physics. Open to both the academic and the socio-economic world, it leads to a variety of job opportunities and provides training for a variety of jobs, or allows students to pursue a doctoral thesis. The master has strong links with the surrounding laboratories, with companies in the instrumentation field, and with the nuclear sector.

Faculty: Faculté des Sciences: Département de Physique  |  Duration: 2 semesters (1 year)  |  Study mode: full-time; taught in French and English  |  Location: Villeurbanne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

What you will study

The main objective of the Master’s program Fundamental Physics and Applications is to provide, over two years, the high-quality training essential for students who either wish to enter the workforce at the master’s level (Bac+5) or pursue a doctoral thesis in the fields of physics and astrophysics.

Career pathways

At the end of the first year of the Master’s program (M1), students can continue into the second year (M2) in one of the following tracks: M1 “Applied Physics”: M2 CDIM, PHYSMAN, or ITC M1 “Matter and Light, Quantum and Complex”: M2 MAX or Q-Light M1 “Universe and Fundamental Interactions”: M2 ASTRO, COSMO, or SUBA

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Application information

Entry requirements

The first year of the Master of Physics is open to students holding a European bachelor's degree in physics, to foreign students holding an equivalent diploma after agreement of an equivalence commission and to engineering students after agreement of the pedagogical commission of the Master.

Domestic applicants: EUR 255 a year (2026/2027). National registration fee (Master) 2026/2027 for EU/EEA students and others not subject to differentiated fees. Excludes CVEC. Source

International applicants: EUR 3,950 a year (2026/2027). Differentiated registration fee for non-EU/EEA students 2026/2027 (master); exemptions possible. Excludes CVEC. Source

Duration: 2 semesters (1 year)

Apply through the official page: https://www.monmaster.gouv.fr/

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