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What college is good for a graduate or maybe even a bachelors in astronomy?
I'm going to clemson in the fall, and i'm majoring in physics but they don't have astronomy as a major or minor and not all that many classes in that area. Which schools do?
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Actually, Clemson has quite a few astronomy classes - I'm doing my PhD in astrophysics there. I didn't go there for undergrad, but they do seem to teach at least a few a year to undergrads.
If you want to apply to grad school for astronomy, majoring in physics is the important thing - you don't need all that much of a background in astronomy, but spend your summers doing REU (research experience for undergraduate) programs. They are offered all over the country, will pay you and provide housing, and you might even get a publication of conference trip out of it. That will look great on grad applications.
Good grad schools for astronomy: Harvard, CalTech, Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, U Chicago, U Hawaii, UT Austin, Columbia, U Arizona. A lot of it will depend on what exactly you want to do - stellar astronomy, galactic, extragalactic, theory, planetary, high energy, etc.
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