Best Astronomy & Astrophysics Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Great Lakes Region that made our Best Astronomy & Astrophysics Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Astronomy & Astrophysics School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of astronomy & astrophysics for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality astronomy program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on astronomy & astrophysics students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other astronomy & astrophysics students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt astronomy & astrophysics students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized astronomy & astrophysics related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for astronomy & astrophysics students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Great Lakes Region

Sad to say, we don't have sufficient data to produce a ranking of the quality schools for astronomy & astrophysics in the Great Lakes Region . This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Great Lakes Region that both offer astronomy & astrophysics and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

As an alternative, look at at some of our other Astronomy & Astrophysics rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Astronomy & Astrophysics ranking.

Best Astronomy & Astrophysics Colleges by State

Explore the best astronomy & astrophysics schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Illinois	153	14
Michigan	149	7
Ohio	144	3
Indiana	132	1
Wisconsin	108	4

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Astronomy & Astrophysics Related Rankings by Major

One of 8 majors within the Physical Sciences area of study, Astronomy & Astrophysics has other similar majors worth exploring.

Astronomy Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Astronomy	34
Astrophysics	7
Other Astronomy & Astrophysics	6

Most Popular Majors Related to Astronomy

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Chemistry	581
Physics	321
Geological & Earth Sciences	69
Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology	22
Materials Sciences	19

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.