Coursework

All Course and Program requirements can be found succinctly summarized with relevant links at the official UCSD MATS program website. For both the Masters and Doctoral Programs. (Hyperlinked appropriately)

For a quick summary, we also hyperlink the relevant checklists from the MATS program for the graduate track options below:

MS - Thesis (Plan 1)

MS - Comp Exam (Plan 2)

Doctoral Program

MATS 200 Seminar Requirement

In addition to the required course information, here we note the MATS 200 seminar requirement of writing 9 seminar writeups per quarter for 3 or 6 quarters in the MS and PhD programs, respectively.

Find Seminars to Attend at the following department event pages:

- BENG: https://be.ucsd.edu/seminars

- Chemistry: https://chemistry.ucsd.edu/ext/seminars.html

- ECE: Email Department for mailing list access

- MAE: https://mae.ucsd.edu/seminars

- NANO: https://nanoengineering.ucsd.edu/seminars

- Physics: https://physics.ucsd.edu/events/seminars-colloquia

- SE: https://se.ucsd.edu/seminars

Advanced Graduate Courses

Outside of the core course requirements, students are free to augment their curriculum with any advanced graduate course or relevant undergraduate courses for their interests or research to round out the remaining course elective requirements.

Navigate UCSD's Schedule of Classes for course offerings in a given quarter: https://act.ucsd.edu/scheduleOfClasses/scheduleOfClassesStudent.htm

Check Department Course Pages to find relevant topics:

- Bioengineering: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/BENG.html

- Chemistry: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/CHEM.html

- Electrical Engineering: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/ECE.html

- Mechanical Engineering: https://rb.gy/dz6z23

- Materials Engineering: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/MATS.html

- Nanoengineering: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/NANO.html

- Physics: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/PHYS.html

- Structural Engineering: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/SE.html

If unsure whether a specific course will qualify as an advanced graduate course for MATS reach out to MATS Academic advising: mats-advising@ucsd.edu