<p>Can you list them please
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<p>this data is from 1992 for graduate schools -- but it is not like school rankings have changed significantly especially for top 10 schools in any field -- and if a school has a strong math graduate department, you can bet it is good for math majors:
<a href="http://www.phds.org/rankings/%5B/url%5D">http://www.phds.org/rankings/</a></p>
<p>Also look into top LACs and top schools without good graduate programs (Harvey Mudd, Swarthmore, Dartmouth, to name a few). It's possible that you get certain advantages from attending these that some other although maybe highly ranked schools cannot help give you.</p>
<p>Princetonnnnn</p>
<p>whats LAC?</p>
<p>Liberal Arts College=LAC</p>
<p>I see... thanx guys =) that really helps</p>
<p>here's another ranking site for graduate departments:
<a href="http://survey.nagps.org/chooseType.php%5B/url%5D">http://survey.nagps.org/chooseType.php</a></p>
<p>RPI is pretty good too...after the second year, you can choose one of the 4 different concentrations in math, and easily go between them(since the course requirements are somewhat similar)</p>
<p>Given the average polularity of majors, there seems to be a disproportionate amount of math majors (or prosepctive ones) on this site.</p>
<p>University of Wisconsin - Madison</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>mike - I'm starting grad school in math this fall, and having been on a lot of these boards for years, I feel that the disproportionate amount of math majors on these sites is due to the large math community out there. I don't mean the large number of math majors - simply the fact that because of outreach programs, math competitions and other organizations, there seems to be a lot out there for math majors to grab on to.</p>
<p>I was doing math competitions since elementary school, and once I started doing MathCounts in middle school, I met a lot of other people similarly interested in math online. And in high school the competitions, and also the online communities, seemed to grow in number. Because the average person in this country dislikes or is bad at math, moreso than other subjects, there seems to be a lot of resources out there that help to form a solid community for math majors out there.</p>
<p>So how does that lead to a lot of math majors on this site? I'm not certain, but I probably was linked to this site from a math site. There are so many math majors out there in overlapping social networks that when one of them finds a site like this, other start to flock to it. Not sure how much this correlates to the disproportionate number of math majors here, but it probably has some impact.</p>
<p>Also, I probably should put in a plug for my own alma mater. Although there were a lot of things that annoyed me about NYU (the core requirements, the annoying adminstration, the immature people who came to NYU just so they could live in NYC, etc.), I was very pleased with the math department and Courant (which is the umbrella institution for the math and CS departments). While the undergraduate program is very unstructured, there are many opportunities for someone who knows how to take advantage of them, including research opportunities and access to graduate courses. I don't have time to talk about them much, but if you'd like to chat about the program sometime my AIM screenname is emengee.</p>