<p>I'm planning to major in physics (the theoretical side) and mathematics... can anyone give me good schools in those areas that are not top-10?
thanks</p>
<p>UC Santa Barbara comes to mind. has a randomly strong physics department.</p>
<p>Gourman Report undergraduate rankings for Physics:</p>
<p>Caltech
Harvard
Cornell
Princeton
MIT
UC Berkeley
Stanford
U Chicago
U Illinois Urbana Champaign
Columbia
Yale
Georgia Tech
UC San Diego
UCLA
U Penn
U Wisconsin Madison
U Washington
U Michigan Ann Arbor
U Maryland College Park
UC Santa Barbara
U Texas Austin
Carnegie Mellon
U Minnesota
RPI
Brown
Johns Hopkins
Michigan State
Notre Dame
SUNY Stony Brook
Case Western
Northwestern
U Rochester
U Pittsburgh
Penn State University Park</p>
<p>thanks guys..</p>
<p>A lot of the top LACs are also very strong in physics: Swarthmore, Haverford, and Williams.</p>
<p>LACs for Physics from Rugg's
Barnard
Bates
Bryn Mawr
carleton
Centre
Dickinson
Franklin and Marshall
Grinnell
Gustavus Adolphus
Harvey Mudd
Haverford
kalamazoo
Lawrence
Macalester
Occidental
Reed
Rhodes
St Olaf
Smith
Swarthmore
Wellesley
Wheaton
Whitman</p>
<p>Rochester, if you can qualify.</p>