Faculty of Physics

Main function of the faculty is to produce the academic and practical personnel who have mastered the laws and principles of physics through hands-on experiments and acquired profound knowledge of modern physics.

The Faculty of Science which was created at the founding of Kim Il Sung University was renamed Faculty of Physics & Math in September, 1947, which was divided into the Faculty of Physics and Faculty of Math in September, 1960.

The faculty is made up of 4 departments (Acoustics, Geophysics, Astronomy, General Physics), 4 institutes(Condensed Matter Physics, Optoelectronics, Theoretical Physics, Applied Physics) and one laboratory(Physics Education)

The courses offered by the faculty are optoelectronics, condensed matter physics, applied physics, space observation instruments and modern physics.

The subjects taught in the faculty are General Physics, Mathematical Physics, Atomic Physics, Statistical Physics, Solid State Physics, Materials Physics, Quantum Theory on Multi-particle world, Laser Physics, Acoustics, Astronomy, Magnetic Substance Physics, Crystal Physics, Physical Optics, Quantum Theory of Field, Theory on Elementary Particles, Digital Signal Processing and Super High Pressure Physics.

The faculty is staffed by 130 professionals including an academician, 3 candidate academicians, lecturers and researchers including 40 Ph. D. holders. Over 40 of them are professors or associate professors.

Student enrollment of the faculty is over 1000.

Introduction to Curriculum For Foreign Students

Regular course (4 years) and continuous course (6 years) are underway in the Faculty of Physics at the moment.

Students are supposed to get a bachelor’s degree in Physics after they have finished the former, while those in the latter get a Master’s degree.

The regular course aims at providing strong foundations and improving practical abilities while getting ready for higher education.

It has compulsory and elective subjects.

1. Compulsory subjects consist of social science subjects, general basic subjects and basic major subjects.

General basic subjects include Mathematical Analysis, Algebra & Geometry, Linear Algebra, Probability and other mathematical subjects and English, which were selected, as the basis of general physics and theoretical physics, to improve logical thinking ability for further education and to read foreign references and communicate fluently.

Basic major subjects, on the other hand, consist of subjects that lay foundation for physics major students and their teaching durations have also been set according to the specific situation of the country and other world’s top-ranking universities.

114 credits should be obtained from compulsory subjects all together.

2. Elective subjects consist of general basic subjects and major subjects. The former, as the basis of the major subject to be selected, aims at providing necessary foundations for research work and training all-round talents.

General elective subjects are made of Mathematics and other Natural Science subjects (2~3 credits), Applied Programming subjects (6 credits), Physical Education subjects (2 credits), Literature and Art subjects (2 credits), which means that 12~13 credits should be obtained altogether.

Major elective subjects consist of those that are basic to major section and other sub-sections.

13 credits should be obtained in major elective subjects, whereas 4 in general major elective subjects.

The regular course does not have a separate duration for graduation thesis but sums up all the practice contents in the major selected to make it a graduation thesis of regular course.

The purpose of the postgraduate course, as a continuous course, is to train research-oriented talents by acquiring high-level major knowledge, conducting research and writing a dissertation.

Every subject in the course is elective, without any compulsory subjects.

40 credits should be obtained in this course; 30 in the 10th term and the other 10 to the end of the course.

In the postgraduate course the major fundamental subjects chosen in the regular course will be continued for 4 weeks to get 5 credits; curriculum of these subjects is divided into two parts, 36 lectures given and 90 hours of self-study.

Mathematics and other natural science subjects will be given for 3 weeks, each week with 40 hours, to get 5 credits through 36 hours of lecture and 84 hours of self-study.

25 credits must be obtained in major subjects for 15 weeks in all; each subject needs 126 hours in 3 weeks to get 5 credits.

Research work is carried out for 62 weeks, during which a master’s thesis is written.

• Bachelor Programme
• Master Programme