Areas of Study

Minor School Format Course Credits
Astronomy College of Liberal Arts and Sciences On Campus 4 Courses
Minor

Astronomy

School

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Format

On Campus

Course Credits

4 Courses

Related Areas of Study

Majors

Minors

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Graduate Outcomes and Careers

Graduate schools 51³Ô¹ÏÍø students have attended

  • Northwestern University
  • University of Michigan
  • Indiana University
  • Purdue University
  • University of Arizona
  • University of Kentucky
  • University of Minnesota
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Wisconsin
  • Washington University in St. Louis

Internships students have participated in

  • VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System), Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, Amado, AZ
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
  • NIST Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, MD
  • Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA

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Physics and Astronomy

Leveraging the resources of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the astronomy minor at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø is housed in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. This department is committed to the exploration of how and why things work through both experiment and theory.

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