Have you heard of this College?

[Spot's Meow]

You may want to also look into some other schools for your undergraduate degree. I know Georgia Southern offers a Bachelor's in Physics. I considered going there at one time.

Never heard of it.

Georgia Southern is close to 4 hours away. Ga tech is 45 mins away.

Normally folks go to a different university for their Master's degree than they did for their Bachelor's degree. You can go to the same school for both, it's usually just preferred to have some variety in experience and on your resume. Also, many schools may have strong graduate programs in a specific area but not a very strong undergraduate program in the same subject, or vice versa. Do you want to go to Georgia Tech for your undergraduate or graduate degree?

 

[Kenbushway]

You may want to also look into some other schools for your undergraduate degree. I know Georgia Southern offers a Bachelor's in Physics. I considered going there at one time.

Georgia Southern is close to 4 hours away. Ga tech is 45 mins away.

Normally folks go to a different university for their Master's degree than they did for their Bachelor's degree. You can go to the same school for both, it's usually just preferred to have some variety in experience and on your resume. Also, many schools may have strong graduate programs in a specific area but not a very strong undergraduate program in the same subject, or vice versa. Do you want to go to Georgia Tech for your undergraduate or graduate degree?

I am meeting with an adviser about that when I return to my current college this summer. If I can do it elsewhere then I will but its all about money and location; preferably my graduate degree.

 

[B.J.]

You may want to also look into some other schools for your undergraduate degree. I know Georgia Southern offers a Bachelor's in Physics. I considered going there at one time.

Georgia Southern is close to 4 hours away. Ga tech is 45 mins away.

Normally folks go to a different university for their Master's degree than they did for their Bachelor's degree. You can go to the same school for both, it's usually just preferred to have some variety in experience and on your resume. Also, many schools may have strong graduate programs in a specific area but not a very strong undergraduate program in the same subject, or vice versa. Do you want to go to Georgia Tech for your undergraduate or graduate degree?

Exactly. And I have heard that some of the graduate programs at Georgia Tech don't usually accept their own undergraduates for this exact reason.

 

[Timby]

Georgia Southern is close to 4 hours away. Ga tech is 45 mins away.

Normally folks go to a different university for their Master's degree than they did for their Bachelor's degree. You can go to the same school for both, it's usually just preferred to have some variety in experience and on your resume. Also, many schools may have strong graduate programs in a specific area but not a very strong undergraduate program in the same subject, or vice versa. Do you want to go to Georgia Tech for your undergraduate or graduate degree?

I am meeting with an adviser about that when I return to my current college this summer. If I can do it elsewhere then I will but its all about money and location; preferably my graduate degree.

In order to get into a graduate program, you will need a bachelor's degree of some kind. A community college will only give you an associate's degree; you will need to transfer your credits to an accredited four-year institution and complete undergraduate coursework there before you even think of a graduate program. You're trying to plan Step J when you're actually needing to focus on Step B.

 

[Kenbushway]

Normally folks go to a different university for their Master's degree than they did for their Bachelor's degree. You can go to the same school for both, it's usually just preferred to have some variety in experience and on your resume. Also, many schools may have strong graduate programs in a specific area but not a very strong undergraduate program in the same subject, or vice versa. Do you want to go to Georgia Tech for your undergraduate or graduate degree?

I am meeting with an adviser about that when I return to my current college this summer. If I can do it elsewhere then I will but its all about money and location; preferably my graduate degree.

In order to get into a graduate program, you will need a bachelor's degree of some kind. A community college will only give you an associate's degree; you will need to transfer your credits to an accredited four-year institution and complete undergraduate coursework there before you even think of a graduate program. You're trying to plan Step J when you're actually needing to focus on Step B.

Georgia Highlands is a 4 year institution. Its also expensive. Chattahoochee tech offers science classes, I am just trying to see how much I can get for cheap. Like I said its all about money.

 

[Timby]

I am meeting with an adviser about that when I return to my current college this summer. If I can do it elsewhere then I will but its all about money and location; preferably my graduate degree.

In order to get into a graduate program, you will need a bachelor's degree of some kind. A community college will only give you an associate's degree; you will need to transfer your credits to an accredited four-year institution and complete undergraduate coursework there before you even think of a graduate program. You're trying to plan Step J when you're actually needing to focus on Step B.

Georgia Highlands is a 4 year institution.

Not according to their own website.

Founded in 1970 as a two-year institution of the University System of Georgia, the college is non-residential and maintains six sites in Rome, Cartersville, Marietta, Dallas and Douglasville. In 2011, the Board of Regents approved a sector change to state college, a designation that means GHC can begin to offer a limited number of baccalaureate degrees. A Bachelor of Science in nursing has been identified as the first such degree. The first class to pursue the BSN will begin classes fall 2013. Other four-year programs that meet the demands of GHC’s service area will be added during the next decade.

Might want to focus on getting your undergrad work taken care of before you start getting pie-in-the-sky dreams of a master's degree in physics.

 

[RoJoHen]

Might want to focus on getting your undergrad work taken care of before you start getting pie-in-the-sky dreams of a master's degree in physics.

Indeed. Four years is a long time, and there is a lot of work to do before you should even start thinking about grad school. Who knows what might change between now and then?

 

[Chensams]

Aren't they the "Rambling Wrecks"?

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. "Ramblin' Wreck" is another nickname based on the fight song and history of the school.

They have a decent (ish) football team so the school must be relevant.

(Well, I'm just happy we beat USC (Calif.) in the most recent bowl game!)

I was rooting for GT. Can't stand Kiffen.

 

[Kenbushway]

In order to get into a graduate program, you will need a bachelor's degree of some kind. A community college will only give you an associate's degree; you will need to transfer your credits to an accredited four-year institution and complete undergraduate coursework there before you even think of a graduate program. You're trying to plan Step J when you're actually needing to focus on Step B.

Georgia Highlands is a 4 year institution.

Not according to their own website.

Founded in 1970 as a two-year institution of the University System of Georgia, the college is non-residential and maintains six sites in Rome, Cartersville, Marietta, Dallas and Douglasville. In 2011, the Board of Regents approved a sector change to state college, a designation that means GHC can begin to offer a limited number of baccalaureate degrees. A Bachelor of Science in nursing has been identified as the first such degree. The first class to pursue the BSN will begin classes fall 2013. Other four-year programs that meet the demands of GHC’s service area will be added during the next decade.

Might want to focus on getting your undergrad work taken care of before you start getting pie-in-the-sky dreams of a master's degree in physics.

Well that isn't a possibility, Southern polytechnic State University is my only other option. I know that is a 4 year school for sure.

 

[propita]

Aren't they the "Rambling Wrecks"?

Should you have to ask...

Aren't they the "Rambling Wrecks"?

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. "Ramblin' Wreck" is another nickname based on the fight song and history of the school.

They have a decent (ish) football team so the school must be relevant.

(Well, I'm just happy we beat USC (Calif.) in the most recent bowl game!)

I only ask because I remember my Dad (who had a BS in Mech Eng out of USC--that's Trojans, not Carolina) used to say their motto(?) "I'm a Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech." For the life of me, I can't remember why. Maybe during a football game on tv? He used to watch those every Saturday. Strange how that's a great memory of Dad.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Might want to focus on getting your undergrad work taken care of before you start getting pie-in-the-sky dreams of a master's degree in physics.

Indeed. Four years is a long time, and there is a lot of work to do before you should even start thinking about grad school. Who knows what might change between now and then?

Isn't that the truth!

I started college intending to major in Subject #1, but after one semester figured out that I was more interested Subject #2, so I majored in that. Then they dropped the courses I was most interested in, so I unhappily shifted to Subject #3. By junior year, I realized that where I really wanted to be was Subject #4, but it would've taken an extra semester to graduate, and I just wasn't that motivated, so I stayed with Subject #3.

A couple years later, I got a masters in Subject #5, which was related to what they had eliminated from Subject #2. Not sure why I didn't go for Subject #2 itself. Probably just because #5 was a shorter program and available at a university within walking distance of my apartment. About 15 years later -- obviously way more motivated by then -- I finally went and got a masters in Subject #4.

 

[Nerys Myk]

All I know, is that I was disappointed that Trip Tucker didn't go the Georgia Tech.

 

[Thestral]

Ha, that would've been pretty sweet.

 

[jayceee]

I am hoping to go there for science, Masters in physics.

What area of physics?

 

[SmoothieX]

Physics turned me from a physics heavy major to a chemistry heavy one.

 

[jayceee]

Physics turned me from a physics heavy major to a chemistry heavy one.

I remember freshman/sophomore physics frequently turned off a lot of freshman and sophomore engineering majors.

At quite a number of universities, the freshman/sophomore physics sequence of courses were used as "weed out" courses to kick out as many engineering majors as possible. Especially after the first course on classical mechanics. The second (or third) course on electricity and magnetism further "thinned out the herd".

 

[SmoothieX]

I took an electrical systems class through the engineering school rather than subject myself to Physics II.

 

[jayceee]

I didn't take a lot of physics towards the end of my time in college. Just the freshman/sophomore sequence which the engineering majors had to take, and several optional courses like modern physics (basically an intro to quantum mechanics course for engineering majors) and an intermediate course on classical mechanics (mostly Lagrangian stuff).

The intermediate classical mechanics course actually helped quite a lot in understanding and appreciating the basic quantum mechanics stuff (in the modern physics course), which would otherwise seem like a "deus ex machina". (I took that intermediate classical mechanics course and also an "advanced math methods for engineers" course in the previous semester, before taking that modern physics for engineers course).