<p>I'm going to be a math major student .. pure, pure math .
(something that most people find useless.. )</p>
<p>Well I was wondering if there is any specific college that has an awesome mathematic program. Do you guys know any?</p>
<p>Most mathematicians would say that Harvard, Princeton, Chicago, Berkeley, and MIT have the best math departments. I'm currently an undergraduate math major at the University of Chicago, so that's the only school I really know about. The math program at Chicago emphasizes algebra, analysis, and topology, the three "mainstream" fields in math. If you're interested in another field, like logic or discrete math, I would still recommend Chicago because the program builds a strong foundation for further study in math.</p>
<p>When I think math, I think Berkeley and Princeton.</p>
<p>The NRC ranking and the Gourman ranking are virtually the same for math. So the very best would probably be:</p>
<p>Berkeley
Princeton
Harvard
MIT
U Chicago
Stanford
Yale
NYU
Michigan Ann Arbor
Columbia
Caltech
UCLA</p>
<p>In any order:</p>
<p>Harvard
MIT
Berkeley
Stanford
Princeton
Caltech</p>
<ul>
<li>gap-</li>
</ul>
<p>Yale/Michigan/Columbia/Chicago/NYU</p>
<p>Chicago, Princeton, Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, CalTEch.</p>
<p>For "pure, pure math" I would say Chicago or perhaps Princeton are obvious choices. You could probably find theoretical math at any of the top schools, though - for example, MIT's theoretical math track in the math major.</p>
<p>Gourman Report ranking for undergrad math:
Princeton
UC Berkeley
Harvard
MIT
U Chicago
Stanford
NYU
Yale
Wisconsin Madison
Columbia
Michigan Ann Arbor
Brown
Cornell
UCLA
Illinois Urbana Champaign
Caltech
Minnesota
U Penn
Notre Dame
Georgia Tech
U washington
Purdue WL
Rutgers NB
Indiana U Bloomington
U Maryland College Park
Rice
UC San Diego
Northwestern
Texas Austin
carnegie Mellon
Johns Hopkins
Washington U St Louis
Ohio State
SUNY Stony Brook
Penn State
UVA
RPI
Illinois Chicago
U Colorado Boulder
U Kentucky
UNC Chapel Hill
Dartmouth
U Rochester
U Utah
SUNY Buffalo
Tulane
USC
UC Santa Barbara
U Massachusetts AMherst
U Oregon
Duke
Louisiana State Baton Rouge
U Arizona
case Western
Michigan State
U Pittsburgh
Brandeis
US Air Force Academy</p>
<p>powergrid doesn't know what he's talking about. There's hardly a gap between, say, Princeton and Michigan, and there's no way Stanford and Caltech are better than Chicago in math. Chicago has one of the most influential math departments in the world.</p>
<p>Agreed....</p>
<p>If you're looking for a safety, the University of Missouri-Rolla is a math/science school.</p>
<p>I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that my list was just based on my personal preference/opinion.</p>