Master Program

If you plan a PhD in elementary particle or astroparticle physics it is useful to combine certain lectures during your master studies at KIT. The following combination would be reasonable:

Example for a Master Program Particle Physics at KIT

Major in Physics: Experimental Particle Physics

• Lecture Particle Physics I (8 ECTS, WS)
• Lecture Particle Physics II – Higgs Physics (8 ECTS, SS)
• Advanced Seminar: Experimental Methods in Particle Physics (4 ECTS)

Second Major in Physics: Experimental Astroparticle Physics

• Lecture Astroparticle Physics I (8 ECTS, WS)
• Lecture Introduction to Cosmology (6 ECTS, WS)

Minor in Physics: Theoretical Particle

• Lecture Theoretical Particle Physics I (8 ECTS)

Non-Physics Elective: Distributed and Parallel Computing and Data Management

• Lecture Distributed Computing (4 ECTS, WS)
• Lecture Parallel Computer Systems and Parallel Programming (4 ECTS, SS)
• Lecture Data and Storage Management (4 ECTS, WS)