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Graduate from Lycoming College and you could end up running the universe. That is exactly what Lycoming alumna Kim Arnold goes to do every day as planetarium director at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Station in Hutchinson, Kansas.

The astronomy major is designed to train students in the field of planetarium education and may serve as a basis for state certification as a secondary school teacher of general science. Classes at Lycoming have an emphasis on lab-based instruction and are small enough to give all students an opportunity to receive individual attention.

The College has its own planetarium, the Detwiler Planetarium, with seating for 75 students.

There are three full-time professors, all with doctoral degrees, in the astronomy/physics department and an open-door policy that gives students easy access to them. The lab-based courses, combined with the individualized attention from professors, are a few of the reasons why Rugg’s Recommendations on the Colleges rated Lycoming’s astronomy program "among the top 25 programs in the country."

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