 Ramond completed his BSEE from Newark College of Engineering (now New Jersey Institute of Technology) in 1965 and completed his Ph.D. in physics from Syracuse University in 1969.He was a postdoctoral fellow at NAL (FermiLab) from 1969 to 1971.He became instructor at Yale University from 1971 to 1973 and assistant professor at Yale University from 1973 to 1976.