Membership Types
Dues and eligibility
We offer generous discounts for students, early-career, and unemployed scientists, among others. Lifetime and senior membership options connect you to the physics community through your career and beyond.
If you're joining for the first time, create an APS account to get started.
Regular membership
Get the full benefits of APS membership, connect with the physics community, and advance your career. Many physicists, scientists in related fields, and science enthusiasts join APS as regular members.
Regular membership
Open to all science professionals and physics enthusiasts
$184
Student and early-career scientists
APS membership connects you to other students, mentors, grant opportunities, and more ways to advance your education and career. Any student enrolled in a degree-granting institution is eligible.
We can support you for up to 15 consecutive years through our discounted dues pricing for students and early-career scientists: Four years of undergraduate eligibility, including Society for Physics Students membership, as well as six years of graduate eligibility and five years of early-career eligibility. If you're not pursuing a graduate degree as part of your career goals, APS can support you through up to four years of undergraduate membership followed by five years of early-career membership.
If you're a high school student who is passionate about physics and considering exploring it as a career, please get in touch with the APS Membership team.
We limit our discounted dues pricing so we can support as many students and early-career scientists as possible, but we do understand sometimes you may face extraordinary circumstances. If you need to request an extension to your student membership status or let us know you're continuing your education, please contact the APS Membership Team.
Sustain the physics community
Stay connected to the physics community and help APS sustain the future of physics by joining through our senior membership, senior lifetime membership, and lifetime membership options.
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.
$99
Senior lifetime membership
Open to individuals who have been APS members for at least ten consecutive years and who are at least seventy years old or retired from gainful employment or retired due to disability.
$1,485
Life membership
With a one-time fee, you can join APS as a lifetime member, which includes free life membership in one division or topical group.
$2,760
Free membership for international physicists
We offer free memberships through our matching membership program for members in less-resourced countries.
Scientists outside the United States
Physicists living in less-resourced countries may be eligible to join for free through the matching membership program.
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