Physics Enrollments: Results from the 2008 Survey of Enrollments and Degrees. Focus On

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Physics; Foreign Countries; College Science; Undergraduate Students; Graduate Students; Enrollment Trends; Academic Degrees; Gender Differences; Bachelors Degrees; Masters Degrees; Doctoral Degrees

Puerto Rico; United States

The Statistical Research Center of the American Institute of Physics conducts an annual census of all degree-granting physics departments in the United States and Puerto Rico. In the 2007-2008 academic year, there were 763 degree-granting departments. The authors received responses from 97% of these departments. Estimates were derived and included in the totals for non-responding departments. Their findings are presented in this paper. Appendices include: (1) Undergraduate physics student enrollments, fall 1999-fall 2008; and (2) Graduate physics student enrollments, fall 1999-fall 2008. (Contains 3 tables and 6 figures.)

ERIC

2011

ED517370