Where does he come from? Where does he go?

MAR 01, 1969

Statistics show the typical graduate student is male and 25 and has a bachelor’s degree from a large PhD‐granting institution. The draft and cuts in support are changing his luck.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3035461

Susanne D. Ellis

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS of US graduate physics education in the last five years reveals fairly stable patterns of where the students come from and where they go. Now, however, changes in these patterns are widely expected because of the drafting of graduate students and shrinking federal support.

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