January 15, 2007: Applications received before January 15 will receive priority in admissions acceptance.
March 31, 2007: Graduate School admission decisions will be mailed by this date to all applicants whose files are complete.
April 15, 2007: Deadline for applicants to respond to offers of admission. If your reply is not received by April 15, the department may reallocate any offer of financial reward.
Plan on arriving in Nashville by August 18th or earlier; the following workshops and orientation sessions are MANDATORY for those graduate students who will be a teaching assistant (TA) in fall 2007:
August 20-21, 2007: International Teaching Assistant Orientation for all international graduate students
August 22-23, 2007: Teaching Assistant Orientation for all first-time teaching assistants
Friday August 24, 2007 or Monday 27, 2007: Physics and Astronomy Lab Safety Inservice (attendance required for one of these days)
Monday August 27, 2007: Physics and Astronomy Department Graduate Student Orientation.
Tuesday August 28, 2007: Physics and Astronomy Department Graduate Student Lunch/Panel Discussion (all graduate students are invited)
Tuesday August 28, 2007: Physics and Astronomy Department Teaching Assistant and Grader Orientation
Wednesday August 29, 2007: First day of classes.
Application Deadlines
Almost all graduate students are admitted for entry in the Fall semester which starts at the end of August. Entry in the Spring semester (which starts in early January) is rare and usually not advisable because our department has a two-semester core course sequence, and all courses start in the Fall semester. Here are some deadlines you need to be aware of in order to get in your application on time: