Application

Application Deadlines

Fall Admission - Master's Degree

• Priority Admission Deadline: January 15*
• Regular Admission Deadline: March 1

*Applications received by the priority deadline will be reviewed earliest for admission and considered first for available funding.

Fall Admission - Post-Graduate Certificate

• Priority Admission Deadline:  January 15
• Regular Admission Deadline:  Rolling, until June 30

Spring admission for the Post-Graduate Certificate will be considered on a case-by-case basis.  Potential applicants should contact Dr. Stephen Avery, Program Director, for advisement prior to submitting an application.

All applications materials must be received in our office by the application deadline.

Application

Applications may only be submitted through our online application system. Click button to begin:

A Master's Degree application must contain all of the following in order to be considered complete:

• Completed application form
• A professional resume
• Non-refundable application fee (Make checks payable to the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania)
• Application essays
• Unofficial transcripts from each post-secondary school attended uploaded through the online application system (*international transcript policy)
• Three letters of recommendation
• GRE General Test and Subject Test (highly recommended) score reports
• TOEFL score report, if applicable

A Post-Graduate Certificate application must contain all of the following in order to be considered complete:

• Completed application form
• Ph.D. in physics or a related field (e.g., engineering, computer science, or physical chemistry with a strong physics minor)
• A professional resume
• Non-refundable application fee of $70.00 (Make checks payable to the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania)
• Application essays
• Unofficial transcripts from each post-graduate school attended uploaded through the online application system
• Three letters of recommendation

Application Essays

Please respond to each of the following questions.  If you are submitting your essays online, please upload them together in one document. Responses may be as long or as short as you feel necessary.

• Have you ever been placed on probation, dismissed or suspended from any college or university for reasons pertaining to academic integrity? If yes, please include any facts that you believe bear on the significance of this circumstance.
• Please describe your career objectives and reasons for choosing the Medical Physics Graduate Program at Penn, including any previous experience with the field of medical physics. Also, use this as an opportunity to tell us about yourself and help us get to know you better. A well-written, thoughtful and concise, essay is an important part of Penn's Medical Physics Program application.

Letters of Recommendation

You must submit three letters of recommendation in support of your application. These should be from individuals with whom you have had a close professional or academic association and who know of your desire to study medical physics at an advanced level. Recommenders may complete their letters online or submit hard copy letters of recommendation. To submit online recommendations, follow the instructions in the Recommendations section of the online application. If your recommendations will not be submitted online, please complete the LPS cover sheet for letters of recommendation, give it to your references, and have them complete and attach the form to their letter. Download the recommendation form.

Standardized Test Scores

The GRE General Test is required of all applicants to the medical physics masters program. The Physics Subject Test or another Subject Test relevant to your undergraduate education is recommended and could help your application, but is not required.  Request that your score reports for the GRE General Test and any subject tests be forwarded to the College of Liberal and Professional Studies using the ETS institutional code 2986.

Most international applicants must also submit TOEFL scores (see: www.sas.upenn.edu/lps/english_proficiency). If the medium of instruction for your undergraduate degree was not English, you must submit an official TOEFL score. The minimum TOEFL scores required for admissions consideration are: 100 (iBT), 250 (CBT), or 600 (PBT). The TOEFL must be sent from ETS using the institutional code 2986. To locate a testing site near you or schedule an exam, visit the TOEFL website

Upon review of an applicant's file, the admissions committee reserves the right to request TOEFL scores.