• MS in Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona is offered as a 2.5-year program.
  • It is an on-campus program available on a full-time basis and offered at the University of Arizona's main campus in Tucson.
  • It is a 32 unit master's degree program.
  • Its graduates become engineers, designers, and technical managers.
  • They work in hardware design, medical and biomedical technology, lasers and electro-optical systems, fiber optics and communications, measurements, manufacturing, and consumer technology.
  • They work for large corporations, small companies, government agencies, universities, hospitals, and research centers. Many even work for themselves, having started successful businesses or gone into consulting.
  • The M.S. in Optical Sciences has no core curriculum, allowing the program considerable flexibility.
  • A student may limit coursework to a single topic area, or he or she may instead form the nucleus of the master's degree around the core courses for the Ph.D. in Optical Sciences — none of which are required.