Number 53 (Story #4), October 29, 1991 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein PHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE U.S. fare pretty well when it comes to financial support. While graduate students in areas such as English or history have to get jobs outside their field to support graduate studies, a majority of physics students get paid for doing physics. A recent AIP report indicates that among first-year physics graduate students, 48% held teaching assistantships, 12% research assistantships, and 18% fellowships. More advanced students were more likely to hold research rather than teaching assistantships. Foreign physics graduate students received comparable overall support. (For more information, contact Susanne Ellis, AIP division of Education and Employment Statistics, 212-661-9404.)