ICTP Postgraduate Diploma programme

The ICTP Postgraduate Diploma Programme is a gateway for young people who might otherwise not have a chance to reach international‐level standards in physics and mathematics.

Its goal is to take good students from the least‐developed countries and train them so they can compete favourably for graduate studies in any centre of learning in the world.

It consists of a rigorous, one‐year, pre‐ doctoral course of study, with a small part devoted to independent projects. Areas of instruction include:

• high‐energy physics
• condensed matter physics
• mathematics
• Earth system physics

After completing the Postgraduate Diploma Programme, most students go on to PhD work in Europe or North America. Others return to jobs as college teachers, or register for PhD programmes in their home countries.

ICTP also offers a Postgraduate Diploma course in physics designed for young physicists and mathematicians from sub-Saharan Africa. The intent is to prepare the students with the necessary background for them to pursue further studies at the graduate level. A number of students with exceptional performance in the final exams will automatically be accepted in the Postgraduate Diploma Programme described above.

For more details about the Postgraduate Diploma Programme, please visit its website.

The Postgraduate Diploma Programme of ICTP is located on the terrace level of the Leonardo Building.

The postal address is:

ICTP, Postgraduate Diploma Programme
Strada Costiera 11
I-34151 Trieste (Italy)

For any further information, please contact the group's secretary:

Ms. Patrizia Passarella (LB room E)
Phone: (+39) 040 2240 389
Fax: (+39) 040 2240 7388
E-mail: diploma@ictp.it