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The undergraduate curriculum

MAR 01, 1968

DOI: 10.1063/1.3034816

Physics Today

THERE ARE NOW ABOUT 800 colleges and universities in the United States that offer physics courses at bachelor‐degree level. There are therefore about 800 physics curricula, most of which are either new and to some extent experimental, or old, unsatisfactory and due to be replaced soon.

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