Schools that offer Astrophysics

College Search & Selection
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<p>Can anybody suggest some good schools with a good undergraduate Astrophysics program? I've searched through CollegeBoard etc, and currently my list includes (not including Ivies, because they're a huge reach [but they are Harvard, Yale, and Columbia]):</p>

<p>Rice
Berkeley
Caltech
UW
UCSC</p>

<p>The only problem is, I've heard some other schools that offer a combination of astronomy&physics as a degree, but don't list it as astrophysics. Does anybody know of any schools like that, that have exceptionally good Astrophysics programs? An example of this would be Caltech, which only lists Astronomy as a major on CollegeBoard. (Oh, and why doesn't MIT have even astronomy listed as a major when they have professors in Cosmology and Astrophysics?!) </p>

<p>Thanks for the help!</p>

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<p>Williams College has an Astrophysics major. It's nice and dark up there at night, too, no light pollution when you're using the scopes. I should add that their math and physics departments are absolutely top notch.</p>

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<p>Swarthmore has a great Astrophysics program, too. They have more light pollution, but a lot of the Astrophysics majors get free trips to Chile and the like for telescope use.</p>

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<p>Well there are two potential schools added to my list. And to think that I simply skimmed over their names on the Astrophysics major list because I had never heard of them before.</p>