2024 Best Astronomy Schools in the Southeast Region
4Colleges in the Southeast Region
67Astronomical 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.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of astronomy. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 67 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.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Astronomy Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Astronomy in the Southeast 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 Southeast Region Schools in Astronomical Sciences
It's hard to beat University of Virginia - Main Campus if you wish to pursue a degree in astronomy. University of Virginia is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Charlottesville. A Best Colleges rank of #33 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means University of Virginia is a great university overall.
There were approximately 25 astronomy students who graduated with this degree at University of Virginia in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Florida is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in astronomy. Located in the midsize city of Gainesville, UF is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #58 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UF is a great university overall.
There were approximately 28 astronomy students who graduated with this degree at UF in the most recent data year.
University of Georgia is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in astronomy. Located in the city of Athens, UGA is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 68 colleges for overall quality in the state of Georgia.
There were approximately 8 astronomy students who graduated with this degree at UGA in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat Georgia State University if you wish to pursue a degree in astronomy. Located in the large city of Atlanta, Georgia State is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 12th out of 68 colleges for overall quality in the state of Georgia.More information about a degree in astronomy from Georgia State University
Best Astronomy Colleges by State
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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.
