<p>I know it's very nearly impossible to rank undergraduate programs but I was hoping for some guidance in which top level schools have well-established, well-known mathematics programs which offer a great undergraduate education. Thanks in advance for the help.</p>
<p>UCLA, Berkeley, MIT, Caltech</p>
<p>Come ON! Give some variety here!</p>
<p>Chicago, UMich, Cornell, for starters...</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd, Carleton, Reed, Grinnell, Stanford...</p>
<p>dont worry about it.</p>
<p>When it comes to undergrad schools in math, find schools you like, and then see if they have good math departments. The school doesn't matter all that much as long as it is a good school.</p>
<p>My point is, there are no rankings for a reason, if you find a good ugrad school you like, and its a well respected school, chances are it has a good program. Pick out some schools and then look into them.</p>
<p>If you're interested in grad school later, here is a list of the top 20 future PhD producers (courtesy of interesteddad):</p>
<p>Academic field: Science and Math (no engineering)<br>
PhDs and Doctoral Degrees: ten years (1994 to 2003) from NSF database<br>
Number of Undergraduates: ten years (1989 to 1998) from IPEDS database<br>
Formula: Total PhDs divided by Total Grads </p>
<p>Note: Does not include colleges with less than 1000 graduates over the ten year period </p>
<p>1 California Institute of Technology 23.2%
2 Harvey Mudd College 18.3%
3 Reed College 10.0%
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 9.6%
5 Carleton College 7.1%
6 Swarthmore College 7.0%
7 University of Chicago 6.8%
8 New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology 6.3%
9 Rice University 6.2%
10 Harvard University 6.0%
11 Princeton University 5.7%
12 Haverford College 5.7%
13 Grinnell College 5.2%
14 Kalamazoo College 5.1%
15 Yale University 4.7%
16 Oberlin College 4.6%
17 Bryn Mawr College 4.4%
18 Williams College 4.3%
19 Lawrence University 4.3%
20 Stanford University 4.2%</p>
<p>Thanks for all the help guys, most of the schools I'm considering are of equal caliber in general so I guess you're saying their math departments will, for the most part, be of equal caliber. That makes things a lot easier.</p>
<p>One proviso: if you are coming into college with a lot of post-AP math and are looking at a school without access to graduate level courses, be sure there is enough there in the department to keep you growing and learning.</p>
<p>im pretty sure NYU has one of the best undergrad math programs in the country.</p>