At the graduate level, the department offers a master of science and doctorate of philosophy in physics.

[8] Prof. Oomman Varghese and Maggie Paulose are listed on Thomson Reuters 2014 list of highly cited researchers in materials science, and also included on the list of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds[9] as the University of Houston's president Renu Khator pointed out in her fall address in 2014.

[10] Prof. Kevin E Bassler was awarded the John and Rebecca Moores Professorship in 2014.

[12] His PhD thesis (1985-1990) was on statistical mechanics of commensurate-incommensurate phase transitions under the supervision of Robert Griffiths.

[13] Prof. Simon Charles Moss joined the physics department in 1972 performing research on the full gamut of materials from hetero- structures and multilayers to quasi-crystals and decagonal crystals using x-ray and neutron scattering as probes of order in matter.