Some 26% of college students taking physics courses in the US did so at two-year institutions in 2011–12, up from 20% 14 years earlier. And in 2011–12, 3300 faculty taught physics at 1063 two-year campuses. These are among the findings in Physics Enrollments in Two-Year Colleges and Number of Physics Faculty in Two-Year Colleges, a pair of recent reports by the Statistical Research Center of the American Institute of Physics. Some 26% of college students taking physics courses in the US did so at two-year institutions in 2011–12, up from 20% 14 years earlier. And in 2011–12, 3300 faculty taught physics at 1063 two-year campuses. These are among the findings in Physics Enrollments in Two-Year Colleges and Number of Physics Faculty in Two-Year Colleges, a pair of recent reports by the Statistical Research Center of the American Institute of Physics.
An estimated 215 000 students took a physics or...
