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4901034 No.4901034 [Reply] [Original]

Good physics schools in the US? Bonus points for astrophysics offered as an undergraduate major.

>> No.4901039

>>4901034
>Wanting to do physics in America.
Silly boy.

>> No.4901054

>>4901039

: , (

>> No.4901108

pls

>> No.4901112

>>4901054
Go yale.

>> No.4901116

>Astrophysics
>Undergraduate

Yeah, good luck with that.

>> No.4901119

>>4901054

you've got something in your nose

>> No.4901120

>>4901116
>In America.

>> No.4901129

>>4901112
Yale is decent for Physics? Not OP but I live in CT like 25 minutes north of Yale so it's an option. My grades are meh though and I am poor.

>> No.4901134

>>4901129
For you? No.

>> No.4901139

Berkeley?

>> No.4901147

>>4901134
Well I was thinking more for grad school, Central or UCONN seem better from a price/quality standpoint for undergrad. Not Southern, I had bad experiences at Southern.

>> No.4901148

>>4901034
>undergraduate major

The majority of US school do not work that way. What countries give undergrad majors?

>> No.4901146

caltech

ucla

anywhere in california

>> No.4901151

>>4901148

if you're saying the majority of us schools do not work that way [typically] in regards to offering astrophysics as an undergraduate major, then i would agree

idk what to tell you if you think that the majority of us schools do not offer undergraduate majors period lol (???)

>> No.4901154

>>4901034
Avoid the USA, it is going to shit fast. It is no place for science. In fact they encourage ignorance (american republican party).

Your best bet for science is Europe, China, or even South America. Most places are better then the US.

>> No.4901157

>>4901151
Yes, I ment that most schools don't differentiate between physics at undergrad level.

>> No.4901161

>>4901157

ah, then yeah

it's hard to find ones that do

>> No.4901174

Isn't UoT at Austin pretty good for that?

>> No.4901186

Harvard
MIT
Caltech
Stanford
Brown
Dartmouth
Penn State
Columbia
Rutgers
Yale
UCLA Berkeley

>> No.4901190

go to Imperial College @London instead

>> No.4901197

>>4901147
uconn sucks, you better be going there for 2 years then transferring to an actual, good, school before you think physics majors there are good.

>> No.4901202

>>4901197
Well I was leaning more towards Central anyway...

I just figured it was an option since it was local.

>> No.4901208

obviously pick a school that's ranked highly in physics, but also pick a big school over a small one. It makes finding research super easy.

>> No.4901652

ye

>> No.4901666

oh physicsfags

having to dish out insane amounts of money to go to top schools just to get anywhere in your field

just another reason why you are inferior to your engineering counterparts

>> No.4901676

>>4901666
b-but...

>> No.4901678

>>4901186
no love for princeton?
not american so I don't really know, but it's pretty famous and all

>> No.4901684

>>4901116
Berkley has one, I think.

>> No.4901687

>>4901666
So tell me, how does cock taste?

>> No.4902854 [DELETED] 

University of Texas @ Austin

University of Michigan

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

University of Rochester (decent, but better for optics)

Caltech

UC San Diego, Berkeley

I dont know about the Ivy league's physics programs, I'm sure they're just wonderful.

>> No.4902857 [DELETED] 

>>4902854
Also Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is supposed to have one of the top physics programs, but every year people from my physics dept (University of Rochester) compare homeworks and exams and evidently our material is a lot harder. Also dont go to either of those places, because If Rochester sucks <span class="math">N+1[/spoiler] where <span class="math">N > 0[/spoiler] then Albany sucks <span class="math">(N+1)^{N+1}[/spoiler] dicks.

>> No.4902875

University Wisconsin Madison or University of Washington are very decent state schools with good physics programs

>> No.4904209
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4904209

>in the US

>> No.4906438

Might there be more?

>> No.4906510

Not really related, and I'm nowhere smart enough to get in, but how is Oxford's engineering? Does it stand up to Caltech, MIT, Stanford? And while we're at it, what about Cambridge?

Basically Brit vs. 'Murican engineering, which is better?

>> No.4906539

best physics schools are Harvard, Princeton, UChicago, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, Cornell, Caltech, and probably a few I'm forgetting.

>> No.4906913

>>4906510

Brit

as always

>> No.4906924

i know someone who graduated from brown and is currently working for nasa

>> No.4906963

>>4906924

Pussy

>> No.4906966

>>4906510
America. More funding/research/etc. Its not even a debate

>> No.4906981

Most schools don't offer 'astrophysics' as a specific undergraduate. I know UC Santa Cruz does, very strong experimental particle physics and astrophysics groups there. But the physics and astrophysics program only differ by 3-5 classes but those would be electives and labs - so in reality not much difference. Just focus on physics though, save specifics for graduate school.

>> No.4907001

Go to MIT. It is fun.