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Membership options for every stage of your career

Whether you're a student just starting your journey, an experienced physicist with a distinguished career, or somewhere in between, APS has a membership option for you. We also offer special memberships for unemployed, retired, and other eligible physicists around the world.

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Regular membership

Open to all science professionals and physics enthusiasts

Annual Dues

$184

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Student memberships

Free for the first year, with student-friendly prices as long as you're enrolled

  • Undergraduate: $25
  • Graduate: $39
Annual Dues

$25–$39

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Early-career membership

Open to science professionals up to five years after they have received their final degree

Annual Dues

$79

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Senior membership

For current members who have been part of APS for at least a decade and are at least 70 years old or retired.

Annual Dues

$99

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Connect with others who share your interests

Join us in advancing physics by connecting with other APS members who share your interests.

We offer many community options featuring meetings, newsletters, and online collaboration spaces to help you find others who share your in on the professionals working in your field.

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APS chapters support graduate students, postdocs, and early career scientists at their colleges, universities, and national laboratories.

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Student ambassadors serve as a voice for physics by building inclusive communities at colleges and universities around the world.

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Connect with others who share your special interests in physics, advance your career, find mentorship opportunities, and more.

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Industrial physicists

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Explore APS membership opportunities and benefits for physicists outside the United States.

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We're advancing physics to benefit humanity.

APS publications are a trusted source of peer-reviewed research, in-depth articles, current news, and topical commentary about physics and its place in the world.

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If you embrace scientific discovery, truth and integrity, partnership, inclusion, and lifelong curiosity, this is your professional home.