<p>I'm trying to decide between u chicago and duke. duke is unranked for math but i know the dept i exceptionalloy strong. i was wondering if anyone knew how the math dept compares and also for physics to chicago or other universities. also, does duke generally have good grad placement for both of these fields?</p>
<p>The grad level physics and math departments are weaker at Duke than at uchicago. However, for undergrad, Duke is constantly among the best Universities for math in the country. Duke placed 3rd place after MIT and Princeton in the Putnam this year and has done exteremly well in mathematical modeling competitions. Sinc, I am not a physics major I do not know too much about that aspect. I do know of a girl that got into all of the top physics grad schools. Math placement is definitely very good. Duke has a lot of great math students that end up going to the best grad schools in math.</p>