Monitor on Psychology - AP psychology gains in popularity

Monitor on Psychology
Volume 39, No. 10 November 2008

UPFRONT
AP psychology gains in popularity
Print version: page 11

The number of students who take the psychology Advanced Placement exam has exploded in high schools, overtaking the chemistry and physics exams and closing in on biology. More than 2 million students take AP exams every year for college credit or advanced standing.

Increase in AP exams, 1999-2007

	1999	2001	2003	2005	2007
Biology	82,592	92,254	103,944	121,446	144,796
Chemistry	48,899	55,406	65,698	78,453	97,136
Environmental Science	9,209	18,880	29,906	38,104	52,416
Physics	49,206	59,760	71,436	81,653	92,396
Psychology	28,291	42,978	62,666	87,207	116,128

Source: The College Board