Best Astronomy Schools in California

Unfortunately, there were no schools in California that made our Best Astronomy Schools list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Insufficient Data for California

Regrettably , we don't have sufficient info to produce a ranking of the top quality schools for astronomy in California. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in California that both offer astronomy and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

Instead, check out at some of our other Astronomy rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Astronomy ranking.

Best Astronomy Colleges in the Far Western US Region

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Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).

More about our data sources and methodologies.