Number 291 (Story #3), October 16, 1996 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein PHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE U.S. : A new AIP report puts their numbers (for the 1994/95 year) at 13,285. Of these, 43% were non-U.S. citizens, 16% were women, 2% were African-American, 3% were Hispanic-American, and 4% were East-Asian-American. Considering only the non-U.S. citizens, China (28%), the Former Soviet Bloc (16%), and Western Europe (14%) sent the highest fractions of students. 1461 PhDs were granted. The median time between the BS and PhD degrees for U.S. citizens was 6.5 years. The favorite subfields of study were condensed matter (23%) and particle physics (13%). (For more information, contact Patrick Mulvey at AIP, pmulvey@aip.acp.org)