Good transfer schools(undergraduate) for a physics major?

xraymancs
Sun, 10 Jan 2016 23:00:31 +0000

OK, this helps. You probably want to look into your state research universities, UF, FSU, UCF are all quite good in physics and all of them are research universities with plenty of opportunities for undergraduate research. If you want to go out of state, you will need to look at mostly private schools where there is a possibility of merit aid. Some of the less selective [url="http://theaitu.org"]AITU[/url] schools are worth looking into.

As a physics professor who has advised many undergraduates over the years at my university, Illinois Tech, I can tell you with certainty that you can get an excellent physics education at most universities and most research universities will provide you with a good set of research opportunities. The physics curriculum is pretty standard for undergraduates and so the courses, and even the textbooks, are mostly the same. The most important difference is that smaller programs which are not focused on preparing students for graduate school might not have a full year of quantum theory, electrodynamics, and classical mechanics plus statistical mechanics. These courses are the kind of preparation that is needed for graduate school. Furthermore, if the school has a graduate program, advanced undergraduates may be able to take some graduate courses which will also be good preparation.