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	Yale University	17	0%	$73,900
9	University of Arizona	17	0%	$29,217
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	Wesleyan University	9	1%	$72,669
16	Indiana University-Bloomington	9	0%	$24,779
17	San Diego State University	7	0%	$29,318
18	Mount Holyoke College	7	1%	$66,558
19	University of California-Los Angeles	7	0%	$34,620
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	Central Michigan University	4	0%	$24,889
25	Brigham Young University-Provo	4	0%	$18,776
26	University of Wisconsin-Madison	4	0%	$26,025
27	University of Kansas	4	0%	$26,566
28	Cornell University	4	0%	$73,904
29	University of Iowa	4	0%	$24,239
30	Villanova University	4	0%	$70,728
31	Amherst College	4	1%	$73,966
32	Vassar College	4	1%	$72,760
33	New Mexico State University-Main Campus	3	0%	$21,380
34	Stony Brook University	3	0%	$26,091
35	Smith College	3	0%	$72,701
36	George Mason University	3	0%	$30,284
37	Monterey Peninsula College	3	0%	$3,093
38	Palomar College	3	0%	$3,256
39	Lee College	2	0%	$3,543
40	University of Southern California	2	0%	$74,825
41	College of San Mateo	2	0%	$3,135
42	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott	2	0%	$53,046
43	University of Hawaii at Hilo	2	0%	$20,530
44	Santa Barbara City College	2	0%	$3,054
45	Williams College	2	0%	$73,200
46	Baylor University	1	0%	$62,527
47	Northern Arizona University	1	0%	$27,266
48	Wellesley College	1	0%	$72,250
49	Moorpark College	1	0%	$3,179
50	Haverford College	1	0%	$73,902
51	Dartmouth College	1	0%	$74,359
52	Bryn Mawr College	1	0%	$70,860
53	Saddleback College	1	0%	$3,246
54	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	1	0%	$71,998
55	Case Western Reserve University	1	0%	$67,332
56	Texas A & M University-College Station	1	0%	$29,506
57	Santiago Canyon College	1	0%	$3,071
58	University of California-Santa Cruz	1	0%	$36,217
59	University of Nevada-Las Vegas	1	0%	$24,035
60	Valparaiso University	1	0%	$54,940
61	Marlboro College	1	2%	$56,458
62	Youngstown State University	1	0%	$22,851
63	El Camino Community College District	1	0%	$3,064
64	Swarthmore College	1	0%	$71,167
65	Valdosta State University	1	0%	$21,320
66	University of Toledo	1	0%	$28,423
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.