2024 Best Astronomy Schools in the New England Region
3Colleges in the New England Region
62Astronomical Sciences Degrees Awarded
Astronomy is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #479 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for astronomy students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 62 degrees in astronomy during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The astronomical sciences program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Astronomy rankings. We derive our Best Overall Astronomy School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Astronomy Schools in the New England Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Astronomy in the New England Region
The schools below may not offer all types of astronomical sciences degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top New England Region Schools in Astronomical Sciences
Every student pursuing a degree in astronomy has to check out University of Massachusetts Amherst. Located in the large suburb of Amherst, UMass Amherst is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 11th out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were about 20 astronomy students who graduated with this degree at UMass Amherst in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in astronomy needs to look into Boston University. Boston U is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Boston. A Best Colleges rank of #54 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Boston U is a great university overall.
There were approximately 18 astronomy students who graduated with this degree at Boston U in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat Smith College if you wish to pursue a degree in astronomy. Smith is a small private not-for-profit college located in the large suburb of Northampton. This college ranks 19th out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were about 2 astronomy students who graduated with this degree at Smith in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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The astronomical sciences program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Astronomy rankings. We derive our Best Overall Astronomy School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
