Help With Physics majors at different schools

Alexandre
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 05:13:33 +0000

Physics is an uncommon major, even at large research universities. For example, at Michigan, which has 29,000 undergraduate students, only has 150 or so undergraduate Physics majors (Freshmen-Seniors), and another 100 Physic graduate students (both MS and PhD). Michigan Physics department has 70 full time faculty members (not including research professions or lecturers). So we are looking at a 3:1 student to faculty ratio. The labs are world class and accessible to all students. The research opportunities are excellent too. For Physics majors, I would recommend research universities.