Are graduate programs in the USA suitable for bachelor EU holders

Yes.
And no.

The programs are different. If you look at the minimum requirements, the difference is that there is a LOT more general education requirements at a US school, so the physics content is about the same. That’s the “yes”.

The “no” is that a 4th year =- and often a 5th - allows the student to go moderately deeply in graduate level work, take more classes in related majors (like chemstry for chemical physics), spend more time in a research lab, etc. This is often where identifying the great students from the merely pretty good students is done. So it’s a ‘no’ as well as a ‘yes’.

The OP has left me with the impression he is prestige-chasing, and if so, he will quickly discover the best programs are not the big names. To take an example from a related field, the best nuclear chemistry programs in the country are Berkeley and…drum roll please…Mizzou.

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