<p>Hello. I want to become a physicist , but I can't decide with the school. The location/climate doesn't matter, everything I'm looking for is a school with best teachers/professors, nice academic atmosphere, etc. Thank you very much.</p>
<p>please PM me the answer whenever you find out. i wanna be an astrophysicist.</p>
<p>US news says Caltech, Harvard, MIT, Stanford. but thats US News. I would assume the tech schools have exceptionally good physics programs, however.</p>
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<p>Johns Hopkins has a great program in astrophysics. In 2002 and 2011, JHU astrophysics professors won the Nobel prize in physics. And in 2010, another JHU professor won the Shaw prize in astrophysics. JHU is home to the [The</a> Space Telescope Science Institute](<a href=“Home | STScI”>Home | STScI), which runs the Hubble telescope. A lot of additional astrophysics work is done at JHU’s Applied Physics Laboratory, which has extensive contacts with NASA.</p>
<p>@LookingIn thank you. thank you very much. can you please name a few others?</p>
<p>Cal Tech and Princeton are also very good. If you search this site you can find threads in which a lot of other universities are mentioned.</p>