I am in 9th grade and live in Virginia. Where should I go to college to be an astronomer?

The University of Virginia is a good school. In Maryland the University of Maryland has a good astronomy department. The Pennsylvania State University is also a good local school for astronomy. Then there are the Ivy League Universities such as Cornell, Princeton, Harvard, Yale. If a university has a department of astronomy with more than 2 astronomers, it is probably a good enough school for an undergraduate program in physics and astronomy.


Copyright 1997 Dr. Sten Odenwald
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