<p>Does anyone want to rank these colleges in terms of their math departments?</p>
<p>Colgate, Columbia, Dartmouth, Williams, and Yale?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Among LACs, I hear that Williams stands out. Too bad this doesn't answer your question.</p>
<p>While it's pending, how do these schools rate in regard to math-intensive economics?</p>
<p>Why do you care? this is undergrad, it doesn't matter. They will all get you a great job and into great grad schools. Its to overall school that matters more for a major like math.</p>
<p>Yale, Columbia, Williams, Dartmouth, Colgate (in terms of solely strength in mathematics)</p>
<p>At the UNDERGRAD level, the differences among these schools in the quality of math is INSIGNIFICANT. Math is a "bread-and-butter" major... any school in the top 50 or even 100 will have a very SOLID UNDERGRAD program.</p>
<p>Harvard<em>and</em>berkeley is absolutely right. At the undergrad level, it's generally way smarter to make a choice based on the COLLEGE, not the DEPARTMENT. Also, don't underestimate the fact that at Columbia and Yale the profs will be focusing on research and grad students more than on undergrads.</p>
<p>You picked some odd schools for wanting to major in math. And don't let some other posters tell you that all top 50 math departments are similar, because they are very wrong. Many top 50 schools don't offer an analysis sequence to freshmen to give a good theoretical intro to freshmen. Schools like Harvard, Princeton, and Michigan have these (because they are top 10 math programs) but many others just make you learn Calc III and Diff Eq the old mundane way before actually introducing you to true mathematics. You'd do well to research inidividual departments.</p>