Graduate Student Report: First-Year Physics and Astronomy Students in 2002 and 2003. AIP Report, Number R-207.34

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Graduate Students; Astronomy; Physics; Doctoral Programs; Masters Programs; Graduate Study; Foreign Countries; Foreign Students; Womens Education; Educational Attainment; Occupational Aspiration

Asia; China; India; United States

The American Institute of Physics has regularly reported information about physics and astronomy graduate students since 1968. In more recent years the survey has shifted to focus on first-year graduate students, with a survey of the full population of graduate students every few years. This report covers surveys of first-year students for the academic years ending in 2002 and 2003. Response rates for the known population were 48% and 46% respectively. Almost 90% of the responses were collected electronically. Differences in response rates by citizenship were minimal. (Contains 10 tables and 6 figures.)

ERIC

2006

ED490910