The Department of Astronomy at the University of Florida, Gainesville, offers graduate programs leading to the M.S. or Ph.D. degrees in astronomy.
Research is an integral part of the graduate program.
Support for graduate studies is available through fellowships, research assistantships and teaching assistantships. Such instruments will provide support for a broad range of scientific research programs within the Department. The planetary science research groups are primarily concerned with the study of small bodies in the Solar System - Asteroids, comets, meteoroids, and interplanetary dust particles. Cometary programs include the study of the composition of the comae and the nuclei of comets. Researchers are also active in studying and modeling the production and orbital evolution of interplanetary dust particles in the zodiacal cloud.