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There are many reasons to join the Society of Physics Students (SPS) national organization.
Upon payment of your $20.00 national dues, you will receive:

• Physics Today (monthly).
• The SPS Observer (quarterly).
• Journal of Undergraduate Research in Physics (online).
• Career Placement Services.
• Eligibility for SPS scholarships, internships, research & travel grants, fellowships and other awards.
• Information and announcements about regional, national and international SPS meetings.
• Information and announcements about SPS research sessions at professional society meetings.
• Free membership with one AIP Member Society for undergraduates only, for up to three years.

Please note that it takes six to eight weeks for your membership to become effective and for publications to begin arriving.

Individuals
Join online using a credit card at the SPS Membership Management site.
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Print the PDF application form to mail in with a check, money order, or credit card information.

Chapters
Email our Bulk Membership Form to the national office along with payment information

Note: To renew your SPS membership, visit the SPS Membership Management site. You must have the renewal invoice you received in the U.S. Mail to complete this transaction.

When you join SPS as an undergraduate, you get free membership in one of ten other physics societies. If you want to get a glimpse of what societies other undergraduates are choosing see this graph. Note that most students select the American Physical Society, but substantial numbers choose to join the astronomers, the medical physicists, the physics teachers and AVS, as well. Since you can do this for up to three years, you might consider bucking the trend one year and trying out acoustics, crystallography, rheology, geophysics, or optics just to see what those societies have to offer. In any case, SPS is eager for you to see the breadth of physics through these societies, so indulge!

• The American Physical Society (APS)
  Promotes the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics and all branches of fundamental and applied physics.
• Optical Society of America (OSA)
  Devotes itself to the advancement of optics, pure and applied, in all its branches.
• Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
  Seeks to increase and diffuse the knowledge of acoustics and to promote its practical applications.
• The Society of Rheology (SoR)
  Promotes the advancement and applications of rheology, the science of deformation and flow of matter, and its applications.
• American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
  Promotes enhancing the understanding and appreciation of physics through teaching.
• American Crystallographic Association (ACA)
  Promotes the study of the arrangement of the atoms in matter, its causes, its nature, and its consequences, and the tools and methods used in such studies.
• American Astronomical Society (AAS)
  Promotes the advancement of astronomy and closely related branches of science.
• American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
  Seeks to promote the application of physics to medicine and biology.
• AVS Science and Technology Society
  Promotes communication, dissemination of knowledge, recommended practices, research, and education in the use of vacuum and other controlled environments to develop new materials, process technology, devices, and related understanding of material properties for the betterment of humanity.
• American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  Promotes the scientific study of the Earth and its environment in space.