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College Choice Considerations for a Budding Astronomer

-- Umesh Ponugupati | June 30, 2020

Question:

Hello! My name is Umesh Ponugupati. I am in 10th grade and I am intrested in becoming an astronomer. So I wanted to ask you which colleges offer a good astronomy program and to be an astronomer what must I do?

-- Umesh Ponugupati

Answer:

We have answered several questions related to college education choices for budding scientists over the years. A search for “college” in our archive will give you quite a bit of input regarding this question.

-- Jeff Mangum

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