Graduate studies and postgraduates studies

[Benzoate]

Once you earn you BS in physics at the undergraduate level and you decide that you want to become a physicist, do most physics majors apply to grad school first and then attempt to pursue in earn a pHd in their field of interests or do most physics bachelors directly apply for a pHd and therefore bypass their graduate studies?

 

[Laura1013]

Masters or Ph.D. = graduate studies / grad school.

 

[oedipa maas]

It's pretty hard to pursue a PhD *before* applying for grad schools... :-)

The nomenclature for "doing a PhD" varies from country to country. "Graduate studies" (ie, any coursework or research project which leads to one or both of an M.Sc or a PhD) in Canada and the US is the same as "postgraduate studies" in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.