Postgraduate taught

Studying with us offers you the opportunity to gain a fundamental understanding of the way the Universe works, as well as providing you with advanced and specialist skills and enhancing your career prospects.

We have highly active research groups in a wide range of areas and have an international reputation for the quality of our research. Our staff are actively involved in major international collaborations, including the SPIRE instrument consortium for the Herschel satellite. The Gravity Exploration Institute is an active member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, which recently made the headlines for its discovery of gravitational waves.

The outstanding record of our research activities compliments the teaching on our postgraduate programmes, as our students have the opportunity to learn from academic staff truly at the forefront of their respective fields. Our track record of teaching excellence and is also supported by a range of world-class laboratory facilities.

When I was finishing my A levels I liked semiconductor, solid state physics and astrophysics. I chose Cardiff University as it has a good reputation in all of them - it was part of the discovery of gravitational waves in 2015 and there’s a really active condensed matter and photonics department in theTranslational Research Hub.

MSc programmes

Our MSc students have access to a dedicated suite of facilities within the School.

We offer five research-led MSc programmes in Physics and Astrophysics which are designed to meet the growing demand for advanced study in these areas and reflect our research expertise.

Course	Qualification	Mode
Astrophysics	MSc	Full-time
Compound Semiconductor Physics	MSc	Full-time
Data Intensive Astrophysics	MSc	Full-time
Data Intensive Physics	MSc	Full-time
Gravitational Wave Physics	MSc	Full-time
Physics	MSc	Full-time