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Re: Giving physics students options

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Giving physics students options
>> http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/giving-physics-students-options
> 
> 
>> Many physics degree programs excel at preparing students for an
>> academic career, but more than half of those who complete the
>> programs head to industry instead
> 
>> ?I was drawn to physics because I thought it was amazing,? says
>> Crystal Bailey, recalling the beginnings of her graduate work in the
>> early 2000s. ?There?s a sense of wonder that we?re really
>> understanding something fundamental and elegant about the universe.?
>>
>> But when she decided that an academic career path wasn?t right for
>> her, she left her degree program. Bailey assumed, like many physics
>> students, that the purpose of earning a physics degree is to remain
>> in academia. In fact, statistics describe a different reality.
>>
>> The American Institute of Physics states that roughly half of those
>> who enter the workforce with a degree in physics?either a bachelor?s,
>> master?s or doctorate?work in the private sector.
>>
>> In an AIP survey of PhD recipients who had earned their degrees the
>> previous year, 64 percent of respondents who identified their jobs as
>> potentially permanent positions were working in industry.
>>
>> Institutions in the United States currently grant around 1700 physics
>> PhDs each year, though only about 350 academic faculty positions
>> become available in that time, according to the AIP.
>>
>> Most university physics programs are rooted in academic tradition,
>> and some members of the physics community have expressed concern that
>> not enough emphasis is placed on preparing students for potential
>> jobs in industry. Among these members are the professors and students
>> in three physics programs that are bucking this trend, taking a
>> decidedly different approach to prepare aspiring physicists for what
>> awaits beyond graduation.
 
Physics has never been a hot job path. 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Giving physics students options Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-12 11:31 -0600
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