Physics at College Park

chaoses
Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:51:15 +0000

I took couples of physics courses for engineer at UMD for undergrad. They are not challenging (I guess because I took the intro ones). The upper level ones might be impossible to get an A, I heard. Bs and Cs are very easy to get if you just do the work. The 600s, 700s, 800s level courses are for grad students. Undergrad CAN take the 600s level courses for credit that will count toward grad. I know people who run out of classes but need to be full time take 600 level courses. Later on, wherever they go, it might / might not transfer as grad credit. If you go to maryland, obviously it will count for graduate credit.

Physics undergrad at maryland has really bad lab equipments i must say. The physics building is old. However, there are many great physics professors involving in big projects (james gates - the string theory, theory of everything, or that nobel prize winner guy on the phD board…). For undergrad, I don’t think there’s that much difference. You might meet more people who are interested in physics at UMD than say UVA. But I think the courseworks are the same.