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PhD Electrical and Systems Engineering at University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania, United States

Programme overview

The ESE PhD program is designed to provide sufficient structure to help you build a strong foundation and to have sufficient flexibility to accommodate the direction of your creativity. You will collaborate closely with your faculty advisor on the direction of your research and develop skills needed to perform independent research and teaching in an exciting, intellectual environment. Current concentration areas are circuits and computer engineering, nanodevices and nanosystems, and information and decision systems.

Duration: 19.5 course units  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Philadelphia, PA, United States

What you will study

Requires 19.5 course units in total. Listed required courses include PHYS 5516 Electromagnetic Phenomena; PHYS 5530 Modern Optics and Modern Optical Physics and Spectroscopy; PHYS 5532 Quantum Mechanics II PHYS; PHYS 6612 Advanced Statistical Mechanics; PHYS 6662 Quantum Condensed Matter Theory; ESE 5100 Electromagnetic and Optics.

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Application information

USD 46,540 a year (2026-27). Full tuition rate for PhD programs for 2026-2027 (Annenberg, Arts & Sciences, Design, Education, Social Policy & Practice, Engineering, Nursing, Wharton and Biomedical Sciences share this rate). Most PhD programs fully fund students for at least 4 years, Source

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