Best college for math
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Anonymous
| What schools have the best undergraduate math department? |
Anonymous
| Be a lot more specific about what you are looking for. |
Anonymous
Anonymous
| MIT is really the king. |
Anonymous
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This site offers a range of suggestions, including purely undergraduate-focused schools, such as Harvey Mudd, Amherst, Swarthmore, Williams, Bowdoin and Hamilton:
https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/best-colleges-for-mathematics/ |
Anonymous
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Doing what with the math degree?
I graduated from UMD CP and work in IT. I don’t use math but use my analytical skills I love what I do and get paid very well. It really depends on what you mean by math. |
Anonymous
These are not the best schools for math. Mudd has a stake, but Berkeley, Princeton, and MIT are in conversation. |
Anonymous
Such a weird list. How is Wash U higher than Princeton in math. |
Anonymous
| List is not right. Yale definitely not number 2. |
Anonymous
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As an alternative source, these generally highly selective schools appeared in a Princeton Review sampling, "Great Schools for Mathematics & Statistics Majors":
Amherst Bowdoin Carleton Hamilton Harvey Mudd Haverford Pomona Reed Williams Brown Caltech Carnegie Mellon Harvard MIT Rice U Chicago U Rochester |
Anonymous
MIT. Harvard. Most of the rest of the ivies. |
Anonymous
If wanting to take your math degree in a financial direction, I would add Bucknell and Colgate. |
Anonymous
MIT and Princeton……the rest is ……..the rest |
Anonymous
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Princeton, Cambridge, Harvard, UChicago, MIT, Caltech, Berkeley, Columbia, are top tier, assuming you take the most rigorous freshman math course (MAT 215, math 55, math 20700, etc)
Note that at MIT, a large portion of the highest achieving math majors know each other from math camps, MOP, etc, and a lot of the rest of the department is mainly those interested in applied math, CS/math double majors, etc |
Anonymous
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A few schools that haven't been mentioned yet that confer a good percentage of their degrees to math / statistics majors:
SUNY - Stony Brook UCSB Macalester St. Olaf Emory UCLA Dartmouth |