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which schools have good astronomy departments?

(and plz dont just say "the ivy leagues", tell me which of the ivy leagues)

By Carolyn (Carolyn) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 01:18 pm: Edit

Carleton has an excellent astrophysics program. Some other schools which are great for astronomy/astrophysics: Princeton, Boston U, Case Western Reserve, Cal Tech, Cornell, Haverford, U of Michigan, Whitman, Williams, U of Mich-Ann Arbor, U of Arizona, Northern Arizona State, U of Hawaii, UC Berkeley, U of Maryland-College Park, UC Santa Cruz, Vassar, Northwestern, Harvard, USC, U of Pittsburgh.

By Y17k (Y17k) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 10:07 pm: Edit

thx

By Calidan (Calidan) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 10:54 pm: Edit

the #1 school in the country for astronomy is U of Arizona (Just FYI).

By Metz (Metz) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 11:26 pm: Edit

Carolyn, I've noticed that you often are able to pull up a list of schools good within a particular field. Do you just know these by heart, or is there a list somewhere?

By Y17k (Y17k) on Monday, December 01, 2003 - 08:19 am: Edit

yeah ive been wondering that as well..

By Carolyn (Carolyn) on Monday, December 01, 2003 - 12:03 pm: Edit

I have a library of source books that I use. They include Rugg's Recommendations of Colleges, which lists top schools by majors and The College Finder, which includes all sorts of strange lists.
I also have lists/information from other sources that I use, including my own research at school web sites. The above two books are really good, however. You can buy either one at Amazon used pretty inexpensively.