Admission FAQs
The Graduate School. You can begin the process on online application (the fastest method) by going to the Graduate school website,
More Information: https://graduate.baylor.edu/admissions/how-apply
The application deadline for the fall semester for full consideration is December 15.
Early offers can be made earlier, but generally most acceptance letters are sent between early February and April 15. Students who are accepted into the program are asked to tell us their decision before April 15. Applicants will be notified when action is taken. (If you have not heard back from us, it means your application is still under consideration.)
Baylor University is a member of the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS). Baylor abides by a CGS Resolution, "Resolution Regarding Graduate Scholars, Fellows, Trainees and Assistants," that concerns the conditions surrounding the acceptance of offers of certain kinds of graduate student financial assistance, namely, scholarships, fellowships, traineeships, and assistantships. The general spirit of the Resolution is that students should have an opportunity to consider more than one offer and should have until April 15th to do so, that institutions and students should be able to view acceptances in force after April 15th as binding, that everyone should know what the rules are, and that an offer by the institution and its acceptance by the student constitute an agreement which both expect to honor.
No, it is not required.
GRE general score is not required for your application.
You may submit your BS or MS thesis, your publication in a peer-reviewed journal, your contribution to conference proceedings, etc, if you have. If you do not have any of these, please proceed without it. It is not required.
Students accepted into the program are offered the position of Teaching Assistant (TA) [or Research Assistant (RA)] given a full tuition waiver. Students in the TA position are asked to teach up to 3 laboratory sections per semester or perform other teaching duties within the department. The base stipend for the department for the 2025-2026 calendar year (including summer) is $32,000. Additional funds are available through individual faculty grants or other programs such as Texas Space Consortium Scholarships.
These exams are required of all foreign national and permanent resident applicants. These exams are not required of applicants who have completed a bachelor's (or higher) degree from an accredited U.S. institution. Please visit this page [link] for further details. The application fee is $50. This can be waived under exceptional circumstances.
The number of graduate students in the department at the present time is 57. There are 31 TAs and 26 RAs.
Experimental areas:
High energy physics
Hypervelocity impact physics
Solid state physics
Space physics
Surface physics
Theoretical areas:
Astrophysics
Condensed matter
Cosmology
Dusty Plasma physics
Elementary particle physics
Lattice QCD
Relativity and gravitation
Space physics
String/M-theory
Surface physics
Baylor University is listed as a "research university" with "very high research activity" under the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Foundation.
We currently have 23 faculty of all ranks in the department.
Please also check the Baylor University graduate school admission FAQ page for further information [link].