How is the math department at Oberlin

<p>How is the math department at Oberlin
How is the prestige?Are there many students going to top schools after graduation?</p>

<p>My reports indicate that the department is excellent.</p>

<p>Be forewarned, upper level courses can be pretty tough. Possibly that's just the nature of the material.</p>

<p>Thanks monydad </p>

<p>And anybody has more information?</p>

<p>I visited Oberlin and sat in on a class taught by Prof. Michael Henle:</p>

<p>B.A., Swarthmore College, 1965
M.A., Yale University, 1967
M.Phil., Yale University 1969
Ph.D., Yale University, 1970</p>

<p>He was awesome! (I am a math geek)
You could call up the department and ask about grad school placement.</p>

<p>My son is a sophmore at Oberlin. He is a biology major. However, he started taking math classes and has enjoyed them so much that he has decided to do a second major in math as well. He says the teachers he has had so far have been excellent. He hasn't looked into grad placement or anything, though, so I can't give you any data, just one person's personal experience.</p>

<p>I know a lot of people taking math, and they all love it. I'll be taking it a lot, but haven't started yet. Yay Comp Sci majors.</p>

<p>My sister's ex boyfriend got a math major there, with a physics minor I think. He got into a Masters physics program at Cambridge working down the hall from Stephen Hawking for a year, then to Berkeley for a Ph.D. in math. If you do well there, you can go where ever you want.</p>

<p>Maths department according to my small experience is cooool..(m taking two maths courses this sem..both r good..)...but ve heard nasty things about a professor in multivariable...so if u avoid him...the rest is great...professors r always (yes always!) willing to help....individual tutoring is also available (easily i think..) and the book is good too..what more could you ask for!</p>