Advising
The graduate advisor may be contacted in the program office. The interdepartmental program's Student Affairs Officer is the advisor regarding the departmental, Graduate Division, and University regulations and procedures.
Entering students are assigned a faculty advisor. Students are expected and encouraged to meet with their advisor quarterly regarding their academic program, particularly at the beginning of each quarter to prepare and approve the study list. Students usually retain this advisor until research work is begun for the Master's or Ph.D. degree, at which time the chair of the thesis or dissertation committee becomes the advisor.
Special problems regarding graduate students are first discussed with the student's advisor, and, as needed, during quarterly faculty meetings. These problems are brought to the attention of the program director either by the student, the student representative, the instructor or the advisor. If academic progress is satisfactory, oral evaluations are made; if the progress is unsatisfactory, students are informed in writing by the director of the graduate program, who explains possible remedial actions and the consequences of unsatisfactory progress. Progress during the first year of graduate study is evaluated primarily on grades in coursework. When the grade-point average falls below the minimum 3.0, students are put on probation for the following quarter. A substantial improvement must be made at the end of that quarter; otherwise, students are subject to dismissal. If, at the end of the third quarter the grade-point average is still below 3.0, the student is recommended for termination of graduate status.

Course Requirements
The courses required for the M.S. degree are the six core courses, which consist of Biomedical Physics 200A, 204, 205, 216, plus two of the following four courses: Biomedical Physics 203, 219, 223, 248; and the six required courses (Biomedical Physics 217, 218, 227, 260A, 260B, 260C), along with any special direction by the graduate advisor.
M.S. and Ph.D. students are required to complete the six core courses with a grade of B or better.  M.S. and Ph.D. students are also required to pass all the other required courses and maintain a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.00.
Biomedical Physics 596 and 598 may be applied toward the degree. Eight units of 500-series courses may be applied toward the total course requirements, four units toward the minimum graduate course requirement.

Comprehensive Examination Plan
Students may pass a comprehensive examination (Plan II) that consists of the materials from the core and required courses. The examination is offered at least once a year, and students have two chances to pass the examination.
Students who plan to continue on the Ph.D. study track may request approval from their faculty advisor for the Ph.D. written specialty examination to be used to satisfy the requirement for the M.S. comprehensive examination (Plan II). Students then receive the M.S. degree, in addition to the Ph.D. degree.

Thesis Plan
Students satisfy this requirement by writing a thesis (Plan I) based on a research project. After students complete the course requirements, they must choose a faculty member to guide their research and chair the thesis committee.
Time-to-Degree
From graduate admission to conferral of the M.S. degree, normal progress is six to eight quarters of full-time enrollment.