1. Most Popular Schools by Degree Program
2. Physical sciences
3. Astrophysics

Most Popular Schools for Astrophysics Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on the theoretical and observational study of the structure, properties, and behavior of stars, star systems and clusters, stellar life cycles, and related phenomena. Includes instruction in cosmology, plasma kinetics, stellar physics, convolution and non-equilibrium radiation transfer theory, non-Euclidean geometries, mathematical modeling, galactic structure theory, and relativistic astronomy.

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Rank	School Name	Students	% of Total	Total On-Campus Cost
1	University of California-Berkeley	29	0%	$38,066
2	University of California-Los Angeles	22	0%	$34,620
3	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	18	0%	$27,898
4	University of California-Santa Cruz	15	0%	$36,217
5	Columbia University in the City of New York	14	0%	$76,856
6	California Institute of Technology	14	4%	$72,084
7	University of Wisconsin-Madison	14	0%	$26,025
8	Rutgers University-New Brunswick	11	0%	$32,443
9	Michigan State University	10	0%	$28,862
10	Princeton University	10	1%	$70,900
11	Carnegie Mellon University	8	0%	$72,283
12	Yale University	7	0%	$73,900
13	Whitman College	7	2%	$68,082
14	University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus	6	0%	$29,097
15	Colgate University	5	1%	$72,275
16	Ohio University-Main Campus	5	0%	$28,986
17	Swarthmore College	4	1%	$71,167
18	Franklin and Marshall College	4	1%	$73,070
19	University of New Mexico-Main Campus	4	0%	$22,639
20	Rice University	3	0%	$65,150
21	Lycoming College	3	1%	$56,155
22	Rochester Institute of Technology	3	0%	$57,401
23	Agnes Scott College	2	1%	$55,625
24	Baylor University	2	0%	$62,527
25	Ohio Wesleyan University	2	1%	$61,910
26	Illinois Institute of Technology	2	0%	$65,386
27	University of Hawaii at Manoa	2	0%	$29,858
28	Tufts University	2	0%	$73,500
29	Wellesley College	2	0%	$72,250
30	University of Colorado Boulder	2	0%	$31,044
31	Haverford College	1	0%	$73,902
32	University of Cincinnati-Main Campus	1	0%	$27,476
33	Lehigh University	1	0%	$68,595
34	Iowa State University	1	0%	$21,186

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Astrophysics 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.