King's College London

Our integrated Master's degree in Physics provides a robust foundation in both experimental and theoretical physics. You'll explore topics such as relativity, quantum mechanics, fields and waves, electromagnetism and nuclear physics. You’ll also be trained in key analytical and practical skills such as problem-solving, creative thinking, team work, and data analysis, preparing you for a wide-range of future-facing careers

You'll join a friendly and supportive department, learning from internationally renowned scientists who deliver outstanding research-led and innovative teaching. In your first two years, you'll sample core physics fields and develop experimental techniques through integrated lab work. Your third and fourth years involve applying your knowledge and skills to complex research or industry-inspired problems, enabling you to undertake novel discovery research and develop crucial employability skills.

In your fourth year, you can also choose from a huge array of modules, from the physics department, the mathematics department and Royal Holloway. You will then spend up to six months tackling a more advanced project of your choice, undertaking independent research and applying advanced knowledge from your four years of study.

Accreditation

All our physics degrees are accredited by the Institute of Physics. Graduates of accredited degrees are recognised by the IOP as meeting the academic requirements for membership and professional qualifications like Chartered Physicist (CPhys).

You also have the opportunity to transfer to the Study Abroad pathway and spend an additional year at a partner institution before returning to King’s to complete your studies. This depends on you reaching a certain grade average and being accepted by a partner university.

Physics has been studied and taught at King's since its foundation in 1829 with many distinguished physicists, including Nobel Laureates, joining our ranks over the last 200 years. Today, physicists at King's are developing new ways to study the molecular processes in biological cells which cause cancer and other diseases, working to understand how the focus between individual atoms and molecules at the nanoscale shape our macroscopic world, and continuing King’s physicist Maxwell's work in the unification of physics.

Our MSci Physics course will give you a strong foundation across the key areas of modern physics, whilst allowing you to tailor and shape your degree to your interests, with a choice of modules from your first year through to your third year. In your last year, you will be able to specialise in a particular area, including astrophysics, cosmology, particle physics and condensed matter.

Our course emphasises applied learning and skills acquisition through individual and group project work, with the option of taking a group project from your second year and more in-depth projects in your third and yor fourth year.

In your third year, you can choose to tackle a real-world problem with a research group in physics, or outside of the department with the King’s Randall Centre for Cell & Molecular Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering or a problem inspired by industry, including from the National Physics Laboratory.

In your fourth year, you get to choose from a huge array of modules, from the physics department, the mathematics department and Royal Holloway. You will then spend up to six months tackling a more advanced project of your choice, undertaking independent research and applying advanced knowledge from your four years of study. Covering a huge range of theoretical and experimental problems, previous projects have explored everything from black holes and gravitational waves, to quantum computing, nanoparticles and quantum dots.

You’ll develop key workplace skills including project management, creative thinking, working as a team, and communication and presentation skills, which will be tested through a viva presentation to peers and senior academics. For some students, the MSci project has led to opportunities for communicating research outside King's at conferences and even publishing papers.