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

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.