2 semester graduate courses vs 1 semester

[tmbrwlf730]

I've looked at different schools degree requirements and noticed some schools require 2 semesters of quantum mechanics and electromagnetic theory, while others just have one. Could the difference in out comes be huge? If you do a masters in a school that requires one would it be harder to get into a PhD program at a different school?

 

[mege]

Are the requirements really just 1 QM/EM course? I've seen it a few places where they don't separate the two semesters of the class and just list it as one requirement (and it took some digging to realize what they really meant).

 

[tmbrwlf730]

It states the classes are only offered during the spring and there is not a part 2 listed so I'm taking that it is only a one semester sequence for both QM and EM.