UMBC - Department of Physics
UMBC has been ranked #1 nationally for 4 straight years by US News as the #1 up-and-coming national university and the Physics Department has been a major contributor to that ranking through its highly successful research programs that havespawned three major research Centers in Atmospheric Physics and Astrophysics associated with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, making the department #2 nationally in research support from NASA.
http://physics.umbc.edu