Astronomy

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.

Degree Statistics

This program is offered at 79 institutions across the United States, with a total of 2724 degrees awarded annually.

Certificates Below Bachelor's

certificates awarded

Associate Degrees

degrees awarded

Bachelor's Degrees

587

degrees awarded

Master's Degrees

164

degrees awarded

Doctoral Degrees

143

degrees awarded

Other Awards

1,816

awards given

Top Schools for Astronomy

These institutions offer the most degrees in this program, ranked by total annual completions.

Rank	Institution	Degrees
1	University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO	228
2	University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA	153
3	Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH	153
4	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA	129
5	University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD	123
6	University of Arizona Tucson, AZ	111
7	The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX	108
8	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	93
9	University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA	90
10	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL	90
11	University of Chicago Chicago, IL	90
12	University of Florida Gainesville, FL	81
13	Yale University New Haven, CT	81
14	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	81
15	Boston University Boston, MA	78
16	Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN	66
17	University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville, VA	66
18	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	57
19	Harvard University Cambridge, MA	45
20	University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, HI	42
21	Brigham Young University Provo, UT	39
22	University of California-Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA	33
23	Wesleyan University Middletown, CT	30
24	New Mexico State University-Main Campus Las Cruces, NM	30
25	Texas A & M University-College Station College Station, TX	30
26	Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY	27
27	University of Hawaii at Hilo Hilo, HI	27
28	Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ	24
29	San Diego State University San Diego, CA	24
30	University of Iowa Iowa City, IA	24
31	Smith College Northampton, MA	24
32	Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH	24
33	Villanova University Villanova, PA	24
34	Northwestern University Evanston, IL	21
35	Georgia State University Atlanta, GA	21
36	University of Georgia Athens, GA	21
37	Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY	21
38	University of Nevada-Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV	21
39	Central Michigan University Mount Pleasant, MI	18
40	University of Toledo Toledo, OH	18
41	University of Kansas Lawrence, KS	18
42	University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI	15
43	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott Prescott, AZ	15
44	Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, MA	15
45	University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	12
46	Youngstown State University Youngstown, OH	12
47	Dartmouth College Hanover, NH	12
48	Amherst College Amherst, MA	12
49	Whitman College Walla Walla, WA	12
50	Haverford College Haverford, PA	9
51	Bennington College Bennington, VT	9
52	Saddleback College Mission Viejo, CA	9
53	Rice University Houston, TX	6
54	Valdosta State University Valdosta, GA	6
55	Barnard College New York, NY	6
56	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY	6
57	Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, PA	6
58	San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA	6
59	Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA	6
60	Glendale Community College Glendale, AZ	6
61	Drake University Des Moines, IA	6
62	Monterey Peninsula College Monterey, CA	3
63	Cabrillo College Aptos, CA	3
64	Lycoming College Williamsport, PA	3
65	Ball State University Muncie, IN	3
66	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh, PA	3
67	Palomar College San Marcos, CA	3
68	Montana State University Bozeman, MT	3
69	Benedictine College Atchison, KS	3
70	University of Delaware Newark, DE	3
71	Orange Coast College Costa Mesa, CA	3
72	Solano Community College Fairfield, CA	3
73	Fullerton College Fullerton, CA	3
74	Santiago Canyon College Orange, CA	3
75	Chandler-Gilbert Community College Chandler, AZ	3
76	Scottsdale Community College Scottsdale, AZ	3
77	Union College Schenectady, NY	3
78	State University of New York at New Paltz New Paltz, NY	3
79	University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus Norman, OK	3