Physics and Astronomy Alumni Statistics in the Last Five Years

Graduation numbers:

• In the last five years (’96-’00) we have had 55 majors (physics, astronomy-physics, pre-engineering, astrogeophysics).

• There have been 36 physics majors (65.5%), 13 astronomy-physics majors (23.6%), 4 Pre-engineering (7.3%) and 2 Astrogeophysics (3.6%).

 Graduate School:

• Percentages going to graduate school have remained nearly constant: 50.9% (’96-’00) vs. 51.8% (’91-’95).

• In the past five years, 15 physics majors went to any type of graduate study, and 6 (10.9% of all majors –16.7% of physics majors) went on to graduate school in physics.

• Similarly, 9 astronomy-physics majors went to graduate school in general, but 6 (46% of astronomy-physics majors, 10.9% of total) went to graduate school in astronomy/physics.

• All astrogeophysics majors went on to graduate school and 3 (75%) in pre-engineering went on to further studies.

 Jobs:

• In the last five years 16 majors (29.1%)  went to technical jobs and 9 (16.4%) went to non-technical jobs (business, law).