1. Pasadena, California The California Institute of Technology has a funding of 185 billion US dollars, with less than 1000 students, which is small but powerful. Caltech has a strong research team, and the teacher-student ratio is only 1:3. The starting salary for physics majors is $60,000, and the mid-career salary reaches105,000. The students' backgrounds are very diverse, and 66% of them are from outside California. The fierce competition with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has enabled the California Institute of Technology to continuously improve the education level of its students and never slacken off.

2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicists firmly believe that there is life outside the earth, and human beings are only one step away from a huge breakthrough. Astronomy and astrophysics are the core topics of several departments, including Earth Science Department, Atmospheric Department, Planetary Science Department and Physics Department. As mentioned above, MIT and Caltech are highly competitive, ranking first and second respectively.

3. Princeton University Princeton /PU (Princeton, New Jersey) Princeton University was established in Elizabeth, New Jersey on 1746 and is one of the nine colonial universities. One year after its establishment, the school moved to Newark, and 1756 moved to Princeton again. The school was originally named University of New Jersey, and 1896 was renamed Princeton University. Princeton allocated $654.38+082 billion, and China ranked fifth.