You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend California Institute of Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Best Value Planetary Astronomy and Science Schools in the Far Western US Region list. Pasadena, California is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s planetary astronomy and science degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.
Caltech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Planetary Astronomy & Science Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Caltech is $26,542 for Far Western US Region Planetary Astronomy and Science students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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