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Assessing Graduate Programs

Is Your Graduate Department in Physics Female Friendly?

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:

How many tenure-track or tenured faculty -- male/female?
How many graduate students ? -- male/female?
How many post doctoral associates? -- male/female?
Is there a family leave policy for graduate students? If so, describe.
Is there family health insurance available for graduate students? Is it included in the stipend?
In a paragraph, please describe why someone applying to graduate school who is interested in a female-friendly department should choose your institution.

The institutions listed are below. If you are a department chair, and would like to add (or change) your institution's contribution, please e-mail Deanna Ratnikova for the web site address where data can be entered.

124 total surveys as of today

• Air Force Institute of Technology (Engineering Physics)

• Alabama A&M University

• Andrews University

• Arkansas State University (Chemistry and Physics)

• Auburn University

• Boston University

• Brandeis University

• Brown University

• California State Univerisity Northridge (Physics and Astronomy)

• California State University Fullerton

• California State University Long Beach

• California State University, Fresno

• Central Michigan University

• 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

• Florida Institute of Technology (Physics & Space Sciences)

• George Washington University

• Georgia Institute of Technology

• Georgia State University

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

• Indiana University

• Indiana University Bloomington (Astronomy)

• Kansas State University

• Louisiana Tech University

• MIT

• Michigan State University

• Michigan Technological University

• Montana State University

• Naval Postgraduate School

• New Jersey Institute of Technology

• New York University

• North Carolina State University

• Northeastern University

• Ohio State University (Astronomy)

• Ohio University

• Oklahoma State University

• Old Dominion University

• Penn State University

• Pittsburg State University

• Portland State

• Princeton University (Astronomy)

• Princeton University

• Purdue University

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

• Rice University

• San Diego State University

• San Francisco State Univ (Physics and Astronomy)

• Stanford University

• Stony Brook (Physics and Astronomy)

• Temple University

• The University of Tulsa (Physics & Engineering Physics)

• Tufts University

• Tulane University

• University at Albany, SUNY

• University of Alabama at Birmingham

• University of Arizona (Astronomy)

• University of Arizona, Dept. of Astronomy/Steward Observatory (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, Riverside (Department of Physics and Astronomy)

• University of California, San Diego

• University of California, Santa Cruz

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

• University of Central Florida

• University of Chicago

• University of Cincinnati

• University of Colorado (Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences)

• University of Colorado, Boulder

• University of Denver (Physics and Astronomy)

• University of Houston Clear Lake

• University of Illinois at Chicago

• University of Iowa (Physics and Astronomy)

• University of Kansas (Physics and Astronomy)

• University of Louisiana at Lafayette

• University of Louisville (Physics and Astronomy)

• University of Maryland (Astronomy)

• University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Astronomy)

• University of Miami

• University of Michigan (Applied Physics)

• University of Michigan

• University of Minnesota Duluth

• University of Minnesota Twin Cities

• University of Mississippi

• University of New Hampshire

• University of New Mexico

• University of New Orleans

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• University of Northern Iowa

• University of Notre Dame, Department of Physics

• University of Oregon (Physics)

• University of Pennsylvania

• University of Pittsburgh (Physics and Astronomy)

• University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras

• University of Tennessee

• University of Texas at Arlington

• University of Texas at Austin (Astronomy Department)

• University of Texas at Dallas

• University of Toledo (Physics & Astronomy)

• University of Utah (Department of Physics & Astronomy)

• University of Vermont

• University of Virginia

• University of Washington (Astronomy) (Astronomy)

• University of Wisconsin, Madison

• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

• Utah State University

• Vanderbilt University

• Virginia Tech

• Washington State University

• Washington University (Physics & Astronomy)

• Wesleyan University

• West Virginia University

• Western Illinois University

• Wright State University

• Yale University (Physics and Applied Physics Departments)

• Yale University (Astronomy)