Which is the best US college for maths/physics?

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<p>Sorry to put down some of the people who seem to think that only schools in the Northeast have any smarts, but the three best schools for Mathematics are UCLA and UC Berkeley and Harvard (and probably in that order).</p>

<p>Check out who’s been winning the Fields Medals (the equivalent of a Nobel Prize in Math) lately and you’ll see this to be true:</p>

<p>[Terence</a> Tao, ?Mozart of Math,? isfirst UCLA math profto winFields Medal / UCLA Newsroom](<a href=“http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Terence-Tao-Mozart-of-Math-7252.aspx]Terence”>Terence Tao, ‘Mozart of Math,’ is first UCLA math prof to win Fields Medal | UCLA)</p>

<p>When it comes to Physics, UC Berkeley should also be considered along with MIT and Princeton. The National Research Council ranks it 3rd in physics–also note that the Berkeley faculty has won 3 Fields Medals (Math’s top award) and the NRC ranks it tied for 1st in math.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.berkeley.edu/about/rank.shtml#awards[/url]”>http://www.berkeley.edu/about/rank.shtml#awards&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;