Top Astronomy / Cosmology Schools

stargirl
Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:50:06 +0000

Well the thing about cosmology and the like is there really isn’t a great financial incentive in the field itself. If you become an astrophysicist of sorts you are going to do it most likely as a professor, so while you’ll have a relatively comfortable salary you won’t be incredibly wealthy either. On the plus side you won’t need to pay for graduate school, unlike if you wanted to go to med school or law school.

I will note, however, that a LOT of people who major in physics and the like do end up going on to becoming engineers or working on Wall Street and the like- only 1 in 20 people with physics degrees actually end up becoming professors, believe it or not! The reason for this is astro/cosmology/physics/whatever gives you a very good ability to solve problems, which really pays off in the world of finance if you’re interested in that later on.