Our program helps our students develop skills for their future. Students will be able to integrate their knowledge, experience and critical thinking skills to solve new and challenging problems in your chosen career field. Students are expected to demonstrate an ability to develop or autonomously extend a research project that advances fundamental or applied scientific understanding and communicate effectively with technical and nontechnical audiences with clear and articulate oral or written discourse. Lastly, students learn how to make effective use of diverse information resources such as published scientific literature, technical databases and other forms of authoritative internet-based content.
UMKC’s Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program includes Physics as a dedicated discipline. Pursue research in applied electronics physics, materials physics, or extra-galactic astronomy by becoming a student-partner with our faculty in their specific areas of expertise.
The broad applicability of physics along with the diverse technical and foundational expertise of our faculty entice many prospective students that have chemistry, geology, mathematics, engineering or computer science as their primary discipline to select physics as their co-discipline.