The main job of astronomy graduates' employment is to engage in scientific research, teaching and technical work in astronomy and related institutions. They can also choose to go to aerospace, remote areas, national defense and other departments, or engage in astronomical popularization education in planetariums and schools.

Astronomy is an undergraduate major in colleges and universities, which belongs to astronomy major. This major trains innovative or compound talents with basic knowledge of astronomy and related mathematics and physics, preliminary astronomical observation and theoretical analysis ability, and can engage in scientific research, teaching, technical application and scientific popularization in astronomy, aerospace, geodesy, theoretical physics, space and geophysics. Astronomy is a basic natural science discipline that studies the origin and evolution of various celestial bodies in the universe and the universe itself. Under the background of current subject refinement, astronomy actually contains many different sub-disciplines.

The main courses are: college mathematics, college physics, theoretical mechanics, mathematical physics methods, electrodynamics, general astronomy, solid astrophysics, stellar physics foundation, introduction to computational astronomy, etc. Students in this major mainly study the basic theories and knowledge of astronomy, physics and mathematics, and receive training in scientific thinking and basic knowledge of astronomical observation. They have good scientific literacy and master the basic skills of theoretical analysis, data processing and computer application.