<p>Hello, </p>
<p>Does anyone know if there are statistics available online about where uchicago undergrads get into/go for grad school?(specifically in math)</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I could not find graduate school placement data for mathematics specifically, but I did find the information listed below.</p>
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<p>For a little help in interpreting things, the Math Department is part of the Physical Sciences Division, and a pretty big part. Somewhere between 40-50% of students with majors in the Physical Sciences Division are math or math-related majors. Now, some of them may be going to graduate school in economics, or may be going to business school. (I don’t know whether professional schools are taken into account in the chart above.) And some non-math majors wind up in math grad school, too. Of the young(ish) people I know with math PhDs, two out of three majored in something other than math in college, and one of those was a Chicago physics major.</p>
<p>The important thing to know is that Chicago is a great place to study math. It has a huge community of math majors and people in other majors who are really interested in advanced math. Chicago’s Math Department is a top faculty, but there are other great math faculties. I am not certain, however, that any of the other top math colleges have quite as high a percentage of their undergraduates doing pure math (especially) as at Chicago. And I believe grad school placements reflect that – which is to say there are a lot of students pursuing PhDs in math, up and down the prestige ladder depending on where they stood relative to other students in the department. Non-stars at Chicago can get into PhD programs elsewhere. Of course you have to be a star to get into a top-level program, and the stars do get into those programs.</p>
<p>You might try PM-ing poster phuriku. He hasn’t posted in a few months, but he used to be pretty active. He was a 2011 math major.</p>
<p>thanks for the replies!</p>
<p>I will most likely be going to uchicago next year so I was curious about this. </p>
<p>Also, this is kind of off topic but what would be considered a “star” at U of C?</p>
<p>The most common “star” would be someone who takes Honors Analysis as a first year and does well in the class… continues that trend into algebra as a second year, further studies, and graduate courses by fourth if not third year. </p>
<p>Of course there are other ways to distinguish yourself. Many students begin taking the regular analysis sequence by winter or spring quarter first year and may have a similar timeline, although they probably will find it more difficult to get into grad courses. And of course some students haven’t had the experience yet to take Honors Analysis as a first year, and if they distinguish themselves might land a spot as a second year.</p>
<p>thanks for the replies.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how the undergraduate math departments of UChicago and Berkeley compare?</p>