The NJIT and Rutgers-Newark departments of physics offer a unique opportunity to pursue master's and doctoral degrees in applied physics in a federated/joint program combining the resources of two of New Jersey's public research universities.

Interdisciplinary applied physics research is available in collaboration with faculties of NJIT, Rutgers-Newark and Rutgers-New Brunswick, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in areas such as electrical engineering, chemistry and chemical engineering, materials science, industrial and manufacturing engineering, biological sciences and geological sciences. Cooperative research efforts are underway with National Solar Observatory, Bell Labs, US Army Research Lab, and other industrial and federal research laboratories.  Other areas of concentration include:

• Device Physics
• Materials Research
• Ultrafast Optical and Optoelectronic Phenomena
• Imaging Technology
• Surface Physics
• Free Electron Laser Physics
• Biophysics
• Discharge Physics
• Solar Physics
• Applied Laser Physics

Fields of Study

• Microelectronics
• Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)
• Condensed Matter Physics
• Optical Sciences
• Optoelectronics
• Materials Science
• Biophysics
• Atomic and Molecular Physics
• Solar Physics, Relativity, Cosmology