I just need a little more advice on which college I should attend. Right now my top three picks (not in an order) are:
Boston University
University of Arizona
Case Western
I also got accepted to:
University of Wisconsin Madison
University of Massachusetts Amherst
I wanted to major in Astrophysics/ Physics and Astronomy or something similar. I also plan to [...]
Im looking ahead at possible career opportunities and im curious whether i can get a degree in Astrophysics at University of Stanford.
i want to major in astrophysics, and i really really want to go to uc berkeley. i think i have a pretty good chance of getting in, but i want to know what other schools i can apply to that have a good astrophysics program, just in case. i'm a high school senior [...]
I am interested in astrophysics. I am college educated, but I'm a novice scientist. I can comprehend anything with the right resources. I'm looking for books that are concise, yet fairly easy to follow, study and read.
I've been looking around on different websites and have been getting little help. I've gone on visits to different places and they have all given the "well all of our degrees are good" crap. Can anyone give a me a straight forward answer on some universities with good astronomy or astrophysics programs?
I want to go to college for astrophysics and i would like to know what would be the best place to go.
I would also like to know what courses i should take and what type of degree I would need.
I am going to college next year and I am really fascinated about cosmology, I have been ever since I was about 6. I want to study astrophysics in university but I want to improve my chance of becoming successful in astrophysics. For my GCE A levels I have chosen chemistry, physics, maths and biology. [...]
Judging by the names, my guess would be:
Astrophysics: Study of the physics and structure of the sky and what it contains (planets, etc).
Astronomy: General study of the sky, planets, etc and general behaviour of it without going too deeply into the physical make-up of it.