Master's Degree in Astrophysics

Admission and graduation profile

Admission profile

The admission profile is the knowledge, skills and abilities of the students who access the degree.

The Master's degree will also allow access to graduates who meet the requirements of Article 16 of RD 1393/2007 and who also have the required B1 level of English.

Future Master's students are expected to have one of the following profiles:

  • Graduates in Physics, primarily, but also in Mathematics and Engineering (including Computer Science) from Spanish universities who want to complete their training with a Master's Degree in Astrophysics.
  • Active graduates who want to improve their training or expand their professional profile (example: secondary school teachers).
  • Graduates from Ibero-American, European (and other world) universities who want to complete the entire Master's degree or some practical credits based on collaborations with the ULL.
  • Graduates in Physics or any of the experimental sciences, engineers and technical engineers.

Master's prior training requirements.

The prior training requirements for students who wish to take the master's degree will be the following:

  • Be graduates or graduates in Physics, or
  • Be graduates or graduates in other Experimental or Technical Sciences and have completed at least 30 credits of Physics subjects similar to those found in the current Bachelor's Degree in Physics.

In cases where potential students cannot meet the criteria specified above, they will be advised, in personal tutoring, which subjects of the Bachelor's or Bachelor's Degree in Physics they should take as prior training to enter the master's degree.

Graduation profile

The graduate profile is the skills, knowledge and abilities that the student must have acquired upon completion of the degree. This information is included in the section on competencies/learning outcomes defined for the title.

The graduate of this master's degree will therefore be a graduate with specialized and advanced training with professional capacity and qualification.

  • Researcher: Comprehensive, rigorous and up-to-date training in Astrophysics. Analysis and treatment of time series, images and spectra. Development of theoretical models in various contexts. Terrestrial, space and virtual observatories.
  • Computer Expert: Programming languages. Numeric codes. Computer applications. 3D numerical simulation and experimentation. Visualization of structures and processes. Dynamic simulation of complex systems. Parallelism. Databases. Supercomputing.
  • Virtual observatories.
  • Expert in instrumentation and technology: Detection in the visible, infrared and other spectral ranges. Optical and electronic instrumentation. Spectral study of matter. High-tech project management. Space projects. Instrumental software. Scientific specifications. Quality control and monitoring of technical requirements.
  • Professor, popularizer: Development of teaching units. Scientific dissemination techniques. Scientific journalism.