As of about a year ago,764 distinct college‐level physics departments existed in the US. Of those, a whopping 513 are at institutions whose highest degree offered is a bachelor's. The vast majority of the schools are liberal arts colleges—by which we mean institutions that focus primarily on undergraduate education, rather than on graduate education and research; this category includes some of the smaller state universities and a few colleges with small graduate programs. Liberal arts colleges represent a significant job market, one that many PhD‐level physicists aspire to join.