<p>What schools have the strongest programs in Applied Mathematics?</p>
<p>NYU, Wisconsin..............</p>
<p>I don't know about ratings, but I've heard good things about Brown & Northwestern.</p>
<p>Rice has a great Applied Mathematics dept.</p>
<p>Applied math and statistics are different...</p>
<p>I'm an applied math major at University of Michigan and I did a similar search before coming. Here's what I've realized: the best applied math is not found at the university with the best "applied math department" but rather at the university with the best math departments and the best departments where math can be applied. Not that many schools have "applied math programs" per se, but everyone has math and econ and physics and stats. Here at Michigan, there are 6 or 7 different "mathematical sciences" majors that each specialize in a different area of applied math, but they are still math degrees. The two I'm considering/pursuing are mathematical economics and probabilistic methods. Other schools may have similar systems. So if you want to go somewhere with good "applied math" just check out schools you'd expect to be good in the area like MIT, Stanford, Berekeley, Michigan, Brown, Wisconsin, etc. I say Brown only because I've heard great things about their actual applied math department but the other schools mentioned have great science/econ/stats and math departments so they're great choices.</p>
<p>Chibearsfan, are you in math 217?</p>
<p>I'm actually in math 295 right now. I'm getting the theoretical basis before I pursue more applied areas. Basically I wanted to learn how to think and how to prove stuff. But this coming semester I'm taking 296 which is largely linear algebra, but it's MATH 513 level, not 217. 513 is just the graduate course in linear algebra.</p>
<p>chibearsfan, my daughter is probably going to be a financial math major at Mich. Those courses you are taking are HARD.</p>
<p>They're not that hard. Granted, the 295/296/395/396 sequence here at Michigan is one of the top 5 hardest math sequences in the country, but when you consider that you're surrounded by the school's 20 best math students and professors who are nationally known like Brian Conrad teaching the courses, you tend to pick up the material pretty easily. It would be much harder with a prof or other students who couldn't explain it well.</p>
<p>Michigan definitely has a great math program.</p>
<p>Does anyone know much about the math department at Penn (quality of education, prestige of profs)? I know its main strength is in computational logic, but I'm really not interested in that--I'm more into pure stuff like number theory and calculus/analysis.</p>
<p>Just asking, cause I'm going to Penn and am weighing various major options.</p>
<p>I was researching schools knowing I was probably going into math and honestly, Penn didn't really come up. In the last NRC undergrad program rankings, Penn was 22nd in the nation in math, not very good compared to most of its programs.</p>