Top Colleges For Astronomy Majors

According to the 2017 U.S. News & World Report, the top 5 universities in the U.S. to study space science are:

 

1. California Institute of Technology
2. Harvard University
3. University of California - Berkeley
4. University of California - Santa Cruz
5. Princeton University

If Harvard, Yale, and MIT don’t fall in your range of reach, many state schools still rank in the top 25 U.S. schools for space science, including:

 

1. Ohio State University - Columbus
2. University of Texas - Austin
3. Pennsylvania State University - University Park
4. University of California - Los Angeles
5. University of Massachusetts - Amherst

The following universities have been noted as the top 5 in the U.S. for a physics major:
 

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. University of California - Berkeley
3. Harvard University
4. University of Chicago
5. California Institute of Technology

And still in the top 20 of all American universities, here are some of the best state schools to study physics:

 

1. University of Maryland - College Park
2. Ohio State University - Columbus
3. University of Wisconsin - Madison
4. University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
5. University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

I hope this will be found useful to anyone who wishes to work one day as an astronomer, physicist, aerospace engineer, or wherever you Shoot for the Stars!

(and p.s., if you're really passionate about it, next time someone says "it's not rocket science", you can say "oh, but in my book, it literally is rocket science")

Go chase after that shooting star, I'm sure you'll catch it!  Good luck!  :)