Manpower Assessment Brief (number-sign)43: Health Physics Enrollments and Degrees Decreased at all Levels in 1997

摘要

Undergraduate degrees decreased from 84 to 62 students in 1997. As with enrollments, most of the The Health Physics Enrollments and Degrees, degrees were awarded within the health physics/ 1997 survey consisted of 51 institutions offering a radiation protection or radiation health major (79 major in health physics/radiation protection or radiation percent), while health physics/radiation protection health, or an option program equivalent to a major (for engineering programs accounted for 15 percent of the example, in radiobiology or biophysics) that prepare the undergraduates. graduates to perform as health physicists. Of the 51 programs, 1 was reported as inactive, and 5 programs MASTER'S ENROLLMENTS AND DEGREES have been suspended; 1 reported last degrees in 1996, 2 reported last degrees in 1997, and 2 programs were In 1997, the number of master's enrollments allowing students to complete their degrees. The data decreased from 460 students to 413, or by 10 percent, for 5 programs were estimated. continuing the downward trend since 1993.