<p>Hello,
I am looking for colleges that have a very good Astrophysics school or theoretical school. I would like to have a focus on Dark Matter and the string theory. What schools would be good for that?</p>
<p>Thank you for the advice</p>
<p>Caltech? I know they have great facilities.</p>
<p>Gourman Report undergrad astrophysics ranking:</p>
<p>MIT
Caltech
Princeton
Indiana U Bloomington
U Minnesota
Harvard
Purdue
U Penn
UVA
U Oklahoma</p>
<p>Gourman Report undergrad astronomy ranking:</p>
<p>Caltech
UC Berkeley
Harvard
Cornell
U Wisconsin Madison
MIT
U Arizona
U Maryland College Park
U Michigan Ann Arbor
UCLA
Yale
Case Western
U Illinois Urbana Champaign
U Texas Austin
UVA
U Washington
U Kansas
Indiana U Bloomington
Northwestern
U Penn
Ohio State
Penn State University Park
U Minnesota
U Oklahoma
USC</p>
<p>Gourman physics
top physics programs according to the Gourman Report, listed in rank order:
Caltech
Harvard
Cornell
Princeton
MIT
UC Berkeley
Stanford
U Chicago
U Illinois UC
Columbia
Yale
Georgia Tech
UC San Diego
UCLA
U Pennsylvania
U Wisconsin Madison
U Washington
U Michigan AA
U Maryland CP
UC Santa Barbara
U Texas Austin
Carnegie Mellon
U Minnesota
RPI
Brown
JHU
Michigan St
Notre Dame
SUNY Stony Brook
Case Western
Northwestern
U Rochester
U Pittsburgh
Penn State
U Colorado Boulder</p>
<p>probably caltech, princeton, stanford, MIT, harvard and berkeley…</p>
<p>Another data set to chew on, from the NRC rankings (dated, but still widely cited).</p>
<p>Astrophys/Astron</p>
<p>1 Cal Tech 4.91
2 Princeton 4.79
3 Cal Berkeley 4.65
4 Harvard 4.49
5 Chicago 4.36
6 Cal Santa Cruz 4.31
7 Arizona 4.10
8 MIT 4.00
9 Cornell 3.98
10 Texas 3.65</p>
<p>thanks so much I figured Cal Tech would be on the top of those lists</p>
<p>I have never thought of Caltech as being into string theory or other theoretical physics things as much as they are into astrophysics. Am I correct in that? Princeton, however, seems to be strong in both, based on my impressions (though Harvard would be solid as well).</p>
<p>^ most top physics school would be good in theoretical physics, e.g. cosmology. If you disregard the contributions of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton, as the university, is just about as good as any top physics universities. Caltech gained its fame primarily in physics, astronomy and chemistry, afterall.</p>
<p>Also check out,</p>
<p>MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY - EAST LANSING, MI</p>
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