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According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities, the department is the 9th best physics department in the world and best in Europe. [4] It is ranked 2nd place in the UK by Grade Point Average according to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) in 2021, being only behind the University of Sheffield. [5]
Top 40 universities based on the CUG's aggregated results over the past 10 years. The Complete University Guide is compiled by Mayfield University Consultants and was published for the first time in 2007. [4] The ranking uses ten criteria, with a statistical technique called the Z-score applied to the results of each. [5]
The University of Edinburgh School of Physics and Astronomy is the physics department of the University of Edinburgh. The School was formed in 1993 by a merger of the Department of Physics and the Department of Astronomy, both at the University of Edinburgh. The Department of Physics itself was a merger between the Department of Natural ...
The Department of Physics at Durham University in Durham, England, is a physics and astronomy department involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and scientific research. Durham has the largest group working on particle theory in the United Kingdom. [2]
Although Astronomy has been taught at the University of Cambridge since medieval times, the departmental structure has changed frequently, and all three of departments listed above were founded within the last two centuries. The first astronomical observatory at the University of Cambridge was built at the top of Trinity College gatehouse in 1704.
Institute of Astronomy Observatory Building, housing the library. The Institute of Astronomy (IoA) is the largest of the three astronomy departments in the University of Cambridge, and one of the largest astronomy sites in the United Kingdom. Around 180 academics, postdocs, visitors and assistant staff work at the department.
The institute currently offers two undergraduate courses: a 3-year BSc (Hons) in Physics and Astronomy, as well as a 4-year MPhys (Hons) in Astrophysics. Both the undergraduate courses are taught as a joint degree by the Astrophysics Research Institute of Liverpool John Moores University and the Department of Physics at the University of Liverpool.
Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics; Institute for Computational Cosmology; Institute of Astronomy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge; Institute of Atmospheric Physics AS CR; Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth