Best college for math

Anonymous
What schools have the best undergraduate math department?
Anonymous
Be a lot more specific about what you are looking for.
Anonymous
MIT is really the king.
Anonymous
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
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
Anonymous wrote: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/

These are not the best schools for math. Mudd has a stake, but Berkeley, Princeton, and MIT are in conversation.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote: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/


Such a weird list. How is Wash U higher than Princeton in math.
Anonymous
List is not right. Yale definitely not number 2.
Anonymous
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
Anonymous wrote:What schools have the best undergraduate math department?


MIT.
Harvard.
Most of the rest of the ivies.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote: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


If wanting to take your math degree in a financial direction, I would add Bucknell and Colgate.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:What schools have the best undergraduate math department?


MIT and Princeton……the rest is ……..the rest
Anonymous
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
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
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