Number 97 (Story #4), October 6, 1992 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein 1990-91 GRADUATE STUDENT SURVEY . A report released in July 1992 by the AIP Education and Employment Statistics Division indicates that the number of the physics graduate students in the U.S. was 14,065. Of these 1264 received PhDs at the end of the 90/91 year. Among PhD recipients, 11% were women and 40% were foreigners. The two leading areas of specialization among new PhD's were condensed matter physics (35%) and particle physics (18%). For the same period, astronomy departments had 880 graduate students and awarded 73 PhDs. Among the PhDs, 16% were women. (For more information, contact Susanne Ellis at AIP, 212-661-9404.)