• TOP for Research Intensity [Complete University Guide 2022]
• Top 10 in the UK for student experience [The Times Good University Guide 2021]
• Top 10 in the UK for the percentage of students satisfied with course [The Guardian University Guide 2021]
• Top 450 in the QS World University Rankings 2022

Theoretical Physics addresses the meaning of everything. From quantum information and a grand unified theory, to dark matter and high energy particle physics, this subject can take you anywhere.

Our four-year MPhys Theoretical Physics degree is ideally suited to students wanting to become professional physicists. You will explore the big questions, such as how did the universe begin, what are space and time made of and is it possible to recreate in a laboratory the conditions that existed seconds after the big bang?

Our graduates have become demand forcasters, electromagnetic signature analysts, cost draftsman, patent examiners and software engineers in sectors which include government research, aerospace, defence, energy, engineering and space exploration.