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AstroGuyHere
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I graduated from Georgia Tech a few years ago with a Bachelors in Applied Mathematics and now I am currently a software developer, however, my passion is in astronomy. I have looked at opportunities in astronomy that is towards the engineering route i.e. image processing engineer, detector engineer, software engineer, etc. but all these require me to have a bachelors in physics therefore I have decided to go back to school to obtain a physics degree.
I have applied for University of Georgia (UGA) and Georgia State and both have accepted me so now I am trying to decide which school I should go to (the reason I am not going back to Georgia Tech is because they only have one astronomer). I have compared the two schools and both have very similar courses in physics and both have roughly the same amount of astronomers -- Georgia State has a few more astronomers. Also, both have graduates in physics.
UGA is the more "prestigious" school so I am not sure which school I should go to.
Does it matter which of these two schools I go to? I am leaning on Georgia State because it is much closer and much cheaper, however, I don't mind going to UGA if it will definitely increase my chances landing a career in astronomy over Georgia State.
Here are the links to their course for undergraduate in physics:
https://catalog.gsu.edu/undergraduate20132014/physics/
http://bulletin.uga.edu/MajorSpecific.aspx?MajorId=129
I have applied for University of Georgia (UGA) and Georgia State and both have accepted me so now I am trying to decide which school I should go to (the reason I am not going back to Georgia Tech is because they only have one astronomer). I have compared the two schools and both have very similar courses in physics and both have roughly the same amount of astronomers -- Georgia State has a few more astronomers. Also, both have graduates in physics.
UGA is the more "prestigious" school so I am not sure which school I should go to.
Does it matter which of these two schools I go to? I am leaning on Georgia State because it is much closer and much cheaper, however, I don't mind going to UGA if it will definitely increase my chances landing a career in astronomy over Georgia State.
Here are the links to their course for undergraduate in physics:
https://catalog.gsu.edu/undergraduate20132014/physics/
http://bulletin.uga.edu/MajorSpecific.aspx?MajorId=129