Curricular structure

Several courses are offered regularly every semester. The compulsory courses for each concentration area are:

• Basic physics (10 credits)
• Quantum mechanics (10 credits)
• Electromagnetism (10 credits)
• Applied physics (10 credit)
• Applied quantum physics (10 credits)

 Among others, it is worth mentioning that the following basic courses are offered at least once a year:

• Statistical mechanics (10 credits)
• Solid-state physics (10 credits)
• Computational physics (10 credits)
• Methods in experimental research (10 credits)

For the master's degree, 40 credits are required for graduation, as for a PhD degree, 70 credits. For both degrees, a Qualifying Exam and a Foreign Language Proficiency Exam are also required. PhD students awarded with a CAPES fellowship are required 10 credits of Supervised Internship.