<p>Are there any current NYU math majors who could chime in on the math undergraduate experience?</p>
<p>How rigorous and serious are the math classes? Do lots of students take graduate courses as an undergraduate? How well prepared would one be for graduate schools if one went to NYU? For example, is NYU's undergrad program strong enough to send some students to Harvard/Princeton/other elite graduate schools?</p>
<p>Finally, how are the undergraduate research opportunities in pure math (not applied math or other mathematical fields like computer science, physics, engineering, economics, and so forth)?</p>
<p>Courant is a superb undergraduate program. Many top mathematicians teach at Courant, and many top mathematicians go to learn at Courant. Although the graduate school is where the prestige is, the undergraduate school is still very good, and many undergrads take graduate classes. Courant isn’t, however, known for pure mathematics. It receives prestige from the study of applied mathematics.</p>
<p>I’m a rising sophomore math education major at NYU and I can say that the math courses are the real deal. Courant is very prestigious. However, many of the professors are horrible. Many of them are just there for research purposes and don’t care about their students and don’t have the great teaching skills that you might have seen from some of your high school math teachers.</p>
<p>Sorry to dig up the old thread, but I wonder if anyone has additional information on this subject? I want to know if anyone has direct experience with Courant’s undergraduate classes and can shed some light into the program.</p>
<p>I was going to make a new thread, but this is relevant to my interests as well. Is there anyone around who could fill some of us prospective math majors in?</p>