Schools to Consider Based on Physics Subfields

We have compiled a list of strong graduate schools and programs within various subfields of physics. Click on links to be taken to the department, lab, or group for the subfield at the respective instituion. Please note: This list is not exhaustive, and we encourage you to do furthur research individually on graduate programs in your areas of interest.

• MIT Plasma Science & Fusion Center
• Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
• Columbia Plasma Physics Laboratory
• University of Wisconsin-Madison Plasma Physics Group

• Harvard University Astronomy Department
• Caltech Astronomy Department You should also consider their physics department if you are interested in instrumentation!
• UC-Berkeley Astronomy Department You should also consider their physics department if you are interested in instrumentation!
• UC-Santa Cruz Astronomy Department

• Condensed Matter Experimental Research, Condensed Matter Theory Research at Princeton
• Experimental Condensed Matter and Theoretical Condensed Matter at Stanford
• Condensed Matter Research at UC-Berkeley
• Experimental Condensed Matter, Theoretical Condensed Matter at University of Chicago
• Condensed Matter Theory at University of California - Santa Barbara
• Condensed Matter Experiment, Condensed Matter Theory at University of Illinois - Champaign, Urbana
• Condensed Matter Theory Group at MIT
• Cornell University Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics

• MIT Center for Theoretical Physics
• High-Energy Theory Research at Princeton University
• Harvard High-Energy Physics Laboratory
• Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
• University of Chicago Particle Theory Group, Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology at UChicago
• UC-Berkeley Physics

• Stanford University Particle Physics Program
• MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science
• Kellogg Radiation Laboratory at Caltech, Caltech Particle Theory Group
• Particle Physics at UC-Berkeley
• Yale University Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory, Yale Theoretical Particle Physics Group, Yale High Energy Physics
• Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory- Duke University Dept of Physics, Triangle Nuclear Theory Group
• National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State