Assessing Graduate Programs

How does your department support women?

The APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics (CSWP) has facilitated the collection of responses to a series of questions about graduate programs in physics that should be helpful to those interested in assessing the climate for women at various graduate schools. Department chairs (or their assignees) were asked the five questions below. All the responses are self-reported by department chairs (or their assignees), and the APS and CSWP assume no responsibility for the accuracy of the information submitted.

The responses, for each institution, can be obtained by clicking on the name of the institution below. The questions are:

  1. Total number of tenure-track or tenured faculty
  2. Number of women in tenure-track or tenured faculty positions
  3. Total number of graduate students
  4. Number of women graduate students
  5. Total number of post doctoral associates
  6. Number of women post doctoral associates
  7. Is there a family leave policy for graduate students? If so, describe.
  8. Is there family health insurance for graduate students? If so, is it included in the stipend?
  9. Do you have a Woman in Physics Group? If yes, please include link to their website if they have one.
  10. Do you have a Physics Graduate Student Association? If yes, please include link to their website if they have one.
  11. What other relevant student groups are there in your institution?
  12. Has your institution ever hosted a Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics? If yes, which year?
  13. Has your institution ever hosted an APS Climate Site Visit for Women and Minorities in Physics?
  14. Please describe why someone applying to graduate school who is interested in a female-friendly department should choose your department.
  15. Please include the name of faculty or staff member and an email they can be reached at for further questions.

If you are a department chair or a graduate program director, and would like to add (or change) your institution's contribution, please email women@aps.org for the web site address where data can be entered.

Institution Responses

164 total surveys as of today

• Air Force Institute of Technology (Engineering Physics)

• Alabama A&M University

• Boston College

• Boston University

• Bowling Green State University (Physics & Astronomy)

• Brandeis University

• Brown University (Department of Physics)

• California State University Fullerton

• California State University Long Beach

• California State University Northridge

• California State University, Fresno

• Carnegie Mellon

• Case Western Reserve University

• Central Michigan University

• Clark University

• Clemson University (Physics and Astronomy)

• College of William and Mary

• Colorado School of Mines

• Colorado State University

• Columbia University (Astronomy and Astrophysics)

• Cornell University

• Dartmouth College (Physics & Astronomy)

• DePaul University

• Duke University

• Emory University

• Emory University

• Emory University

• Florida Atlantic University

• Florida Institute of Technology (Physics & Space Sciences)

• Florida State University and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

• George Mason University

• George Washington University

• Georgetown University

• Georgia Institute of Technology

• Georgia State University (Physics and Astronomy)

• Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) (Applied Physics)

• Howard University (Physics and Astronomy)

• Illinois Institute of Technology

• Indiana University

• Iowa State University (Physics and Astronomy)

• Kansas State University

• Kent State University

• Lehigh University

• Louisiana State University (Phyiscs & Astronomy)

• Louisiana Tech University

• Louisiana Tech University

• MIT

• Miami University

• Michigan State University

• Michigan Technological University

• Minnesota State University, Mankato

• Mississippi State University (Physics and Astronomy)

• Montana State University

• New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

• New Mexico State University

• New York University

• North Carolina State University

• Northeastern University

• Northern Arizona University

• Northern Illinois University

• Ohio State University (Astronomy)

• Ohio University

• Oklahoma State University

• Oklahoma State University

• Old Dominion University

• Oregon State University

• Penn State University

• Pittsburg State University

• Portland State

• Princeton University

• Purdue University

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

• Rice University

• Rutgers University (Physics and Astronomy)

• San Francisco State Univ (Physics and Astronomy)

• Southern Methodist University

• Stanford University

• Stephen F. Austin State University (Department of Physics, Engineering and Astronomy)

• Stony Brook (Physics and Astronomy)

• Syracuse University

• Temple University

• Texas A&M University-Commerce

• Texas Christian University

• The Catholic University of America

• The City College of the City University of New York

• The University of Texas at Austin (Physics)

• The University of Tulsa (Physics & Engineering Physics)

• Tufts University

• Tulane University

• University at Albany, SUNY

• University of Alabama

• University of Alabama at Birmingham

• University of Arizona (Astronomy)

• University of California Los Angeles (Dept. Physics and Astronomy)

• University of California, Berkeley

• University of California, Davis

• University of California, Irvine (Physics and Astronomy)

• University of California, Los Angeles

• University of California, Riverside (Department of Physics and Astronomy)

• University of California, San Diego

• University of California, Santa Barbara

• University of California, Santa Cruz

• University of California, Santa Cruz (Astronomy/Astrophysics)

• University of Central Florida

• University of Cincinnati

• University of Colorado (Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences)

• University of Colorado - Colorado Springs

• University of Colorado, Boulder

• University of Dayton (Physics/Electro-Optics)

• University of Denver (Physics and Astronomy)

• University of Houston Clear Lake

• University of Idaho

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Astronomy)

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• University of Iowa (Physics and Astronomy)

• University of Kansas (Physics and Astronomy)

• University of Kentucky (Physics and Astronomy)

• University of Louisiana at Lafayette

• University of Louisville (Physics and Astronomy)

• University of Maryland (Astronomy)

• University of Maryland Baltimore County

• University of Maryland, College Park

• University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Astronomy)

• University of Memphis

• University of Miami

• University of Michigan

• University of Minnesota Duluth

• University of Minnesota Twin Cities

• University of Mississippi

• University of Missouri Columbia (Physics and Astronomy)

• University of Missouri-St. Louis (Physics and Astronomy)

• University of Nebraska

• University of New Hampshire

• University of New Mexico

• University of New Orleans

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• University of Notre Dame

• University of Oregon (Physics)

• University of Pennsylvania

• University of Pittsburgh

• University of South Carolina

• University of South Florida

• University of Tennessee

• University of Texas at Arlington

• University of Toledo (Physics & Astronomy)

• University of Utah (Department of Physics & Astronomy)

• University of Vermont

• University of Virginia

• University of Washington (Physics)

• University of Washington (Astronomy) (Astronomy)

• University of Wisconsin, Madison

• Vanderbilt University

• Virginia Tech

• Washington State University

• Washington University (Physics & Astronomy)

• Washington University in St Louis

• Wesleyan University

• West Virginia University

• Western Illinois University

• Western Michigan University

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

• Wright State University

• Yale University (Physics and Applied Physics Departments)

• Yale University (Astronomy)