Undergraduate students have the opportunity to work alongside graduate students and faculty members exploring both observational and theoretical research fields including cosmology, radio astronomy, planetary science, computational astrophysics, astronomical instrumentation, stellar astrophysics, and extragalactic astronomy.
Astronomy has a wide variety of resources for research, its most anticipated addition being the Large Millimeter Telescope in Mexico. Its enormous collecting area and high angular resolution will enable cosmological studies of forming galaxies in the early universe, as well as detailed mapping of galaxies in the local universe with unprecedented sensitivity.
Astronomy also operates several high-performance parallel Beowulf-type computers for computational studies. These computer clusters are currently used to simulate the growth of structure in a cold dark matter-dominated universe and to study galaxy dynamics and interactions.
30 Mei 2023, 5 September 2023, 18 Desember 2023
College of Natural sciences
121 Presidents Drive,
Amherst,
Massachusetts,
01003, United States
As an international student applicant (non-U.S. citizens who do not hold U.S. Permanent Resident Status), you may be considered for admission to master's or doctoral degree programs if you have attained your baccalaureate degree at a regionally accredited American college or university, or possess an equivalent credential from a qualifying international institution.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst Graduate School accepts the following:
Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL): minimum combined score of 80. We accept results from the in-person version or the iBT Home Edition only. We do not accept TOEFL MyBest Scores.
International English Language Testing System (IELTS Academic): minimum combined score of 6.5
Duolingo English Test: minimum overall score of 105
Pearson Test of English (PTE Academic): minimum overall score of 53
