Handbook Manual

Download Physics Handbook.pdf Welcome to the Bryn Mawr Physics Department. Over the last 15 years (1992-2007) Bryn Mawr has had between 3 and 15 physics majors a year. The 15-year average is 8. This gives us the best of all worlds. We stay small compared with the Mathematics, Biology, and Chemistry Departments at Bryn Mawr and as such, faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students form a close-knit community of friends and scholars. But we have a huge effect on the national scene, something you won't realize until you begin "life after Bryn Mawr." Nationwide, women number about 22% of those earning bachelor's degrees in physics and closer to 17% of those earning Ph.D.'s. So, even though we are small, the Bryn Mawr physics department provides one of the largest groups of women physics majors and pre-majors in the country. You will experience great diversity and many peers (other women studying physics) as friends, coursework collaborators, mentors, tutors, and role models for career discussions.

Bryn Mawr also ranks in the top five among liberal arts colleges in the production (%) of women undergraduates having B.A.‘s who subsequently go on to earn a Ph.D. in the physical sciences. Physics majors from liberal arts colleges such as Bryn Mawr have many career options: teaching, banking, business, industry, computer science, law, patent law, medicine, and graduate work in the physical sciences ranging from astrophysics and physics to materials science, earth science, oceanography, and physical chemistry.

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