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<p>If you do major in math and will have completed college math courses beyond the calculus BC level, I would suggest that you attend a research university with a large good math department. Students in this situation often take more than the usual number of advanced undergraduate courses, take graduate level courses, and do more than the usual amount or difficulty of undergraduate research. A small undergraduate-only LAC with a small math department may be too limiting for such a student, and the usual LAC advantage of small lower division courses will not be as useful to such a student who goes directly to the upper division courses which will typically be small in the math department.</p>
<p>Also, see #94, #97, #99, #108 in this thread regarding small LACs for PhD-bound math majors (ignore the prestige war that consumes most of the thread):
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1414683-prestige-versus-cost-7.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1414683-prestige-versus-cost-7.html</a></p>