In the Canadian system the physics GRE is often used as a mitigator. Many schools will either require, or highly recommend that you take the PGRE if you're an international student.
Undergraduate curricula across the country are reasonably uniform, at least insofar as the core courses. But once...
There's advantages and disadvantages to each path, including just majoring in physics alone.
One thing that can help you decide is to go through the course calendar and pick out the courses that you most want to take and then see which program best lines up with what you want to do.
It can...
Maybe I'm a little late to the conversation but the first big challenge to graduate admissions is even getting to the assessment stage. Most graduate schools have a hard GPA cut off for graduate admissions of 3.0. So when you apply, if your grades don't convert to a 3.0 GPA by however that...
You might also want to consider not just GPA, but the fact that you are currently only enrolled in four courses. If you drop one, that's down to three. Maybe four is considered a full course load at your university, but in my experience it's usually five. And more to the point people on...
There is an academic bottleneck effect that a lot of undergrad students experience. When it happens often depends on a number of factors: the quality of their high school education, the details of the university curriculum, management of prerequisites, etc.
In high school your peers are, for...
Just to throw in my own two cents on the matter... one of the big reasons for the thesis (or more accurately, a dissertation) is documentation.
As you work on a PhD, you do a lot of research. You start with a tremendous amount of background reading and skill development in your own particular...
This seems like the kind of question that's best answered by Googling and searching through university program calendars. I'm sure somewhere it's possible, though likely not without consequence. Single major engineering programs tend to be crammed full of course work as it is. Double majoring is...
In my experience most classes are taught during clinical hours on weekdays, although labs and QA work need to be done outside of clinical hours because the machines are busy treating patients during the day. So I would anticipate some late nights. A program may also have a clinical rotation...
A certificate program could be an option for you. Note that there is minimum level of physics courses that applicants generally need to satisfy, and BME can vary in program content, so make sure you read the fine print to make sure you have the necessary coursework background before applying...
I'm not sure what the point of getting two PhDs would be. Once you've learned the skills you need to conduct research independently, you'd likely be wasting a lot of time (yours and that of others) by enrolling to do it all over again in a related field.
If you really want to pursue a PhD, your...
I'm not in a position to advise anyone on the details string theory, but it would seem that the first step should be identifying a supervisor or mentor for the project who can help you with this. It's not uncommon for potential PhD candidates to approach potential supervisors with questions like...
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Attend as many seminars and talks as you can. This helps you to learn what other people are working on, what they've had success with, and will help you to develop a bigger picture of the physics community. You might even discover a branch of physics you were never even aware of.
It can...
I think this is a common misconception (although to be fair, I don't know what country we're talking about).
But where the common route through academia includes a 2 year MSc, where 1.5 of those years are coursework, the expectation that any significant publication is going to come out of a...
Taking an additional year for schooling is not going to have any repercussions in an of itself. There is of course the added financial cost and, as I mentioned before, anything deriving from the root cause of taking that extra year. But lots of people extend their studies for very legitimate...
So you lost interest in physics and now you're determined to get back on track.
Perhaps the first step should include a hard look at what caused you to lose interest in the first place. Sheer force of will doesn't often overcome a problem when the root cause isn't addressed. Some of the more...