Welcome to the Department of Physics - Undergraduate Program at the University of California, San Diego.

The Department of Physics was established in 1960 as the first new department of the UCSD campus. Since then it has developed a strong faculty and student body with unusually diversified interests which lie primarily in the following areas:

1. Physics of elementary particles
2. Quantum liquids and superconductivity
3. Solid state and statistical physics
4. Plasma physics
5. Astrophysics and space physics
6. Atomic and molecular collision and structure
7. Biophysics
8. Geophysics
9. Nonlinear dynamics

In addition to on-campus research facilities, the high energy program uses accelerators at SLAC, CERN, Cornell, and Fermi Laboratory. The astrophysics program uses facilities at Keck, Lick, Mt. Lemmon, and Kitt Peak Observatories. The Department of Physics offers undergraduate programs leading to the following degrees: B.S., Physics B.S., Physics with Specialization in Biophysics B.S., Physics with Specialization in Biophysics-Premedical B.S., Physics with Specialization in Earth Sciences B.A., General Physics B.A., General Physics/Secondary Education.

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