National Report Card

Most institutions prepare zero new physics teachers per year.

The severe national shortage of high school physics teachers is due to very low numbers of new teachers educated at US colleges and universities. About two-thirds of institutions with a secondary education program prepared zero high school physics teachers in the last five years. But small increases can make a huge difference!

The shortage of new physics teachers could be eliminated if each college and university educated one more teacher per year. For more information about these numbers, see the FAQ.

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National Honor Roll

Listed here are the top 50 producers of physics teachers (with a physics-related major, averaged over three recent years). For more information about these numbers, see the FAQ or click on a specific institution's name.

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Top 100 Annual Producers of Physics Teachers
1	Brigham Young University	6.7
2	New York University (NYU)	6.3
3	University of Kentucky	6.0
4	East Carolina University	5.0
5	Rutgers University	4.3
5	SUNY Geneseo	4.3
5	Stony Brook University (SUNY)	4.3
8	Georgia State University	3.7
8	University of Illinois at Chicago	3.7
8	Boston University	3.7
8	The College of New Jersey	3.7
8	City College of New York	3.7
8	Pace University	3.7
8	Relay Graduate School of Education - New York	3.7
8	Bowling Green State University	3.7
8	Texas A&M University	3.7
17	Illinois State University	3.3
17	Rowan University	3.3
17	Queens College, City University of New York	3.3
20	University of Connecticut	3.0
20	Valparaiso University	3.0
20	University of the Cumberlands	3.0
20	Western Governors University - Washington (WGU)	3.0
24	Northern Illinois University	2.7
24	Virginia Tech	2.7
26	Boise State University	2.3
26	Illinois Institute of Technology	2.3
26	University of Michigan	2.3
26	SUNY Cortland	2.3
26	University of Texas at Austin	2.3
26	University of Virginia	2.3
26	University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire	2.3
26	University of Wisconsin - River Falls	2.3
34	Arizona State University	2.0
34	Northern Arizona University	2.0
34	National University	2.0
34	University of California, Los Angeles	2.0
34	National Louis University	2.0
34	Harvard University	2.0
34	Montclair State University	2.0
34	SUNY Binghamton University	2.0
34	University of Akron	2.0
34	Clarion University of Pennsylvania	2.0
34	Pennsylvania State University	2.0
34	Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi	2.0
34	University of Wisconsin - La Crosse	2.0
47	California Baptist University	1.7
47	California State University, Long Beach	1.7
47	California State University, San Bernardino	1.7
47	University of Southern California	1.7
47	University of Northern Colorado	1.7
47	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	1.7
47	Purdue University	1.7
47	University of Notre Dame	1.7
47	University of Massachusetts Dartmouth	1.7
47	University of Maryland, College Park	1.7
47	University of Missouri	1.7
47	Appalachian State University	1.7
47	Saint Peter's University	1.7
47	Clarkson University	1.7
47	SUNY Oneonta	1.7
47	SUNY Plattsburgh	1.7
47	Kent State University	1.7
47	Portland State University	1.7
47	Kutztown University	1.7
47	West Chester University	1.7
47	University of Tennessee	1.7
47	Utah Valley University	1.7
47	Central Washington University	1.7
70	University of Arkansas	1.3
70	University of Central Arkansas	1.3
70	Brandman University	1.3
70	California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo	1.3
70	California State University, East Bay	1.3
70	California State University, Stanislaus	1.3
70	San Jose State University	1.3
70	Southern Connecticut State University	1.3
70	University of South Florida	1.3
70	Kennesaw State University	1.3
70	Mercer University	1.3
70	Cornell College	1.3
70	Loyola University Chicago	1.3
70	Wheaton College	1.3
70	Wichita State University	1.3
70	Boston College	1.3
70	Hamline University	1.3
70	Minnesota State University Moorhead	1.3
70	Ithaca College	1.3
70	SUNY New Paltz	1.3
70	SUNY Potsdam	1.3
70	University of Texas at El Paso	1.3
70	Utah State University	1.3
93	California State University, Chico	1.0
93	California State University, Sacramento	1.0
93	San Francisco State University	1.0
93	University of California, Berkeley	1.0
93	University of California, Riverside	1.0
93	University of Georgia	1.0
93	Lewis University	1.0
93	Western Illinois University	1.0