About Physics, B.s. in California State University, Fresno

The B.S. in Physics offers preparation appropriate to employment in government and industry involving a range of activities from laboratory work to technical sales. It also offers appropriate background preparation for graduate study in physics and a large number of other fields. With an appropriate choice of electives, it provides a very strong premedical, predental, or preoptometry program.

Beyond professional goals, the study of physics provides a deep understanding of fundamental processes which underlie our physical world and fosters methods of inquiry which promotes intelligent analysis.

Interesting Classes You Might Take

• Nuclear Medicine
• General Relativity (learn about black holes)
• Astrophysics/Observational Astronomy (find black holes)
   

What You Can Learn

• The nature of space and time
• Why at the smallest scales nature is random
• Do research at the Large Hadron Collider to discover new particles
• Learn how physics can be used in medicine
• What’s on the other side of a black holes’ event horizon

Academic qualification equivalents

•  All college or university transcripts with English translation.  High school transcript is required for lower-division applicants.  

English language requirements

• TOEFL – 61 iBT, or
• IELTS – 6.0 or with 5.5 Band score in each section.

California State University, Fresno Cost of Attendance

• The following are the undergraduate and graduate tuition costs at California State University, Fresno: