Help With Physics majors at different schools

CrewDad
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:40:50 +0000

@ryanroos,
Within the past 10 years, Wesleyan and Williams have been awarded two Apker Awards in physics.
Wesleyan’s physics prize was won against much bigger schools since the Apker is divided into two tracks, one for Ph.D-granting institutions and one for non-Ph.D-granting institutions.

Colgate 2007
Haverford 2008
Mt Holyoke 2009
Wellesley 2009
Williams 2010
Wesleyan 2010
Augustana 2011
Franklin & Marshall 2012
Wesleyan 2013
Loyola Univ MD 2014
Williams 2015
University of San Diego

Ph.D institutions.
University of Michigan 2007
University of Pennsylvania 2008
Princeton 2011
Princeton 2012
RIT 2013
University of Minnesota 2014
Caltech 2015
MIT 2016

If you’re interested in pursuing a Ph.D, using data from the National Science Foundation, the following schools produced the highest percentage of graduates who eventually go on to earn a Ph.D. in physics.

Caltech
Reed
Swarthmore
Lawrence
Carleton
Haverford
Williams
MIT
CO School of Mines
Grinnell
Amherst
Princeton
Wabash
College of Wooster
Gustavus
Vassar
Kenyon
Rice
Bryn Mawr
University of Rochester.