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Size of Undergraduate Physics Programs

FEB 01, 2010
Data from the AIP Enrollments and Degrees and Academic Workforce Surveys
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Research Manager AIP
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Senior Research Fellow
Size of Undergraduate Physics Programs

An updated version of this report is now available:

Data on the relative size of undergraduate physics programs. Each year, many undergraduate physics programs are required to undergo a departmental review and, in some cases, are asked to justify their continued degree-granting status. This focus on is intended to assist those departments by presenting data that will permit individual departments to see where they fit on the national landscape of physics bachelor’s degree production.

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