Great Colleges to Study Astronomy

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Boston University (Boston, MA)

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California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)
Fisk University (Nashville, TN)
Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA)

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Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
Indiana University Bloomington (Bloomington, IN)
Iowa State University (Ames, IA)
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)

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Montana State University—Bozeman (Bozeman, MT)
New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, NJ)
New Mexico State University (Las Cruces, NM)
Pennsylvania State University—University Park (University Park, PA)
Pontificia Universidad Catolica (Santiago, CHL)
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)

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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—New Brunswick (New Brunswick, NJ)

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Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, NY)
Swinburne University (Melbourne, AUS)
Texas A&M University—College Station (College Station, TX)
The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)

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The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)

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The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
Tohoku University (Sendai, JPN)
Universidad de Chile (Santiago, CHL)
University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA)
University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, CO)

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University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
University of Hawai'i at Manoa (Honolulu, HI)
University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (Champaign, IL)
University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD)
University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI)

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University of Minnesota Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA)

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University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
University of Washington, Seattle (Seattle, WA)
University of Wisconsin—Madison (Madison, WI)
Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN)
Yale University (New Haven, CT)

Source: Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy

About This List

These colleges and universities are members of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy. They operate observatories, which means their students get a front-row seat to the stars! It also means they get access to cutting-edge astronomical research. FYI, this list is from The College Finder, 2017 edition now available!

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Transylvania University

Lexington, KY

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