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Do you have a question about the RSAA Graduate Program? Want to talk to one of our astronomers or students? Email us at and we will endeavour to get back to you within a working day.

The deadline for application for admission and scholarships for 2009 entry is 31 August 2008 for international students and 31 October 2008 for domestic students.

An overview of the Graduate Program in Astronomy and Astrophysics can be found here. The application form for graduate admission and scholarships, and general information for prospective graduate students, can be found here. Information on scholarships available for study at RSAA can be found here. For information on the Summer Research Scholarship program please check here. For information on the Astrophysics Honours Year program please check here.

Did you know?

• RSAA students have been awarded 6 of Australia's 10 Hubble Fellowships, making the RSAA the 2nd most successful non-US institution (behind Cambridge which has 7) in these prestigous postdoctoral fellowship competitions.
• RSAA scientists have led the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, the 6dF Galaxy Survey, the High-Z SN Search, the HST Key Project for measuring the Hubble Constant, and Mount Stromlo has been the home of the MACHO experiment.
• In 2006, the International Shaw Prize in astronomy was awarded to an RSAA scientist for the discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.
• In the 2006/2007 Hubble Space Telescope round, only two large (more than 100 orbits) "Treasury Programs" were awarded time, each of which involves scientific investigators from RSAA.
• RSAA has built Australia's first instruments for the Gemini 8m telescopes (NIFS program, NIFS begins observations in Hawaii, GSAOI program) and is involved in instrumentation for ESO's Very Large Telescopes.  RSAA has a PhD program in astronomical instrumentation. We run telescopes at Siding Spring Observatory, which is the site for the School's new 1.3m SkyMapper telescope, to see first light in 2007.
• In April 2006, the ANU joined the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) consortium; the ANU's contribution to telescope design and future instrumentation projects will take place at RSAA's Advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre (AITC) at Mount Stromlo.
• RSAA hosts the only astronomer named in ISI's 2004 list of the most cited scientists for Australia.
• RSAA hosts one of Australian Astronomy's two Fellows of the Royal Society, two Federation Fellows, and has 2 current members of staff who are members of the Australian Academy of Science.