Universities with ties to the Space Program or good degrees in Space Studies

If she knows she wants to be an engineer, that’s one thing. If not, I’m not sure it really matters. S19 is a physics and math double major at Bowdoin. His physics professor pointed him to the Maine Space Consortium when he wanted to take this last fall off of school. S19 made a bunch of connections through the MSC and Bowdoin alums who work at NASA via LinkedIn and found himself an internship at a start up aerospace company for last fall. Filled out the app for NASA summer internships (it’s on their website and you give them a resume and recommendations and a bunch of essays and then “click” on the internships that you are interested in - there are hundreds.)

He ended up being offered a (very well) paying NASA internship this summer. He has a little knowledge that they wanted but they will also be teaching him a ton.