Which is the best US college for maths/physics?

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@Calcruzer

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 Tao, ?Mozart of Math,? isfirst UCLA math profto winFields Medal / UCLA Newsroom

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<p>A few things:</p>

<p>(1) No one thinks that the NE has a monopoly on mathematics. Stanford and Berkeley have been well-represented in this thread…</p>

<p>(2) UCLA (arguably) does not have a top ten program in math, let alone THE top or top three program.</p>

<p>(3) We are talking about the “smarts” of the undergraduate students, not their professors.</p>