Most Popular Schools for Astronomy Major & Degree Program

A general program that focuses on the planetary, galactic, and stellar phenomena occurring in outer space. Includes instruction in celestial mechanics, cosmology, stellar physics, galactic evolution, quasars, stellar distribution and motion, interstellar medium, atomic and molecular constituents of astronomical phenomena, planetary science, solar system evolution, and specific methodologies such as optical astronomy, radioastronomy, and theoretical astronomy.

Rank	School Name	Students	% of Total	Total On-Campus Cost
1	University of Colorado Boulder	34	0%	$31,044
2	University of Washington-Seattle Campus	29	0%	$27,638
3	The University of Texas at Austin	28	0%	$26,506
4	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	27	0%	$36,652
5	University of Maryland-College Park	25	0%	$27,146
6	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	23	0%	$30,298
7	University of Virginia-Main Campus	18	0%	$33,493
8	University of Arizona	17	0%	$29,217
9	Yale University	17	0%	$73,900
10	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	14	0%	$30,102
11	Columbia University in the City of New York	14	0%	$76,856
12	Boston University	13	0%	$72,618
13	University of Florida	13	0%	$21,211
14	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	11	0%	$30,913
15	Wesleyan University	9	1%	$72,669
16	Indiana University-Bloomington	9	0%	$24,779
17	San Diego State University	7	0%	$29,318
18	University of California-Los Angeles	7	0%	$34,620
19	Mount Holyoke College	7	1%	$66,558
20	Ohio State University-Main Campus	6	0%	$27,367
21	University of Hawaii at Manoa	6	0%	$29,858
22	State University of New York at New Paltz	6	0%	$25,641
23	University of Georgia	5	0%	$26,688
24	Brigham Young University-Provo	4	0%	$18,776
25	Villanova University	4	0%	$70,728
26	Vassar College	4	1%	$72,760
27	University of Iowa	4	0%	$24,239
28	University of Wisconsin-Madison	4	0%	$26,025
29	University of Kansas	4	0%	$26,566
30	Cornell University	4	0%	$73,904
31	Amherst College	4	1%	$73,966
32	Central Michigan University	4	0%	$24,889
33	Monterey Peninsula College	3	0%	$3,093
34	Palomar College	3	0%	$3,256
35	New Mexico State University-Main Campus	3	0%	$21,380
36	Smith College	3	0%	$72,701
37	George Mason University	3	0%	$30,284
38	Stony Brook University	3	0%	$26,091
39	Lee College	2	0%	$3,543
40	College of San Mateo	2	0%	$3,135
41	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott	2	0%	$53,046
42	University of Hawaii at Hilo	2	0%	$20,530
43	Santa Barbara City College	2	0%	$3,054
44	University of Southern California	2	0%	$74,825
45	Williams College	2	0%	$73,200
46	Santiago Canyon College	1	0%	$3,071
47	University of Nevada-Las Vegas	1	0%	$24,035
48	Valparaiso University	1	0%	$54,940
49	Marlboro College	1	2%	$56,458
50	Texas A & M University-College Station	1	0%	$29,506
51	Wellesley College	1	0%	$72,250
52	Youngstown State University	1	0%	$22,851
53	Valdosta State University	1	0%	$21,320
54	Pennsylvania State University-World Campus	1	0%	$15,828
55	University of California-Santa Cruz	1	0%	$36,217
56	Moorpark College	1	0%	$3,179
57	Case Western Reserve University	1	0%	$67,332
58	University of Toledo	1	0%	$28,423
59	Swarthmore College	1	0%	$71,167
60	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	1	0%	$71,998
61	Saddleback College	1	0%	$3,246
62	Bryn Mawr College	1	0%	$70,860
63	Dartmouth College	1	0%	$74,359
64	Haverford College	1	0%	$73,902
65	El Camino Community College District	1	0%	$3,064
66	Baylor University	1	0%	$62,527
67	Northern Arizona University	1	0%	$27,266

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Astronomy program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.