Universities with good physics/astronomy programs?

[The_Z_Factor]

Hello all, I'm only in high school but lately I've been looking up Universities that offer majors in physics and astronomy. So far I've been looking at Clemson, The University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, and the college I've been looking at the most is the University of Colorado at Boulder. The University of Colorado at Boulder looks the best to me, despite how far away it is from where I live. Can anybody give me any suggestions or links to any good colleges for studying physics and astronomy? I would be very grateful. I don't mind where it is in the US seeing as I am going to be going out of state either way since I haven't been able to find any colleges in North Carolina that I like. I would be very grateful if anybody could help with this.

 

[robphy]

These:

AIP
http://www.aip.org/statistics/trends/highlite/bachplus5c/bachplus5c.htm
http://www.aip.org/statistics/trends/undergradtrends.html

AAPT
http://www.aapt.org/Projects/ntfup/casestudies.cfm
http://www.aapt.org/projects/ntfup.cfm

may be more useful than, say,

USNews
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankindex_brief.php

 

[The_Z_Factor]

Thanks a lot, the helped me very much.