Which is the best US college for maths/physics?

[charlottew9]

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<p>You need to come up with a list of reaches, matches, and safeties because there’s no guarantee that you’ll get into reach schools. Those schools often reject top kids, and int’l students sometimes have a harder time for admittance.</p>
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<p>How much can your parents pay towards your education?</p>

<p>If not much, then you’ll have to focus on schools that either give full aid to int’ls, or will give you generous merit.<<</p>

<p>I know these schools are really hard, but I think my matches and safeties will be British unis, because they are cheaper. Like you say money is a big thing to consider - it’s only the top American schools which give full financial aid to internationals.</p>

[datalook]

<p>membership of National academy of science in math and applied math</p>

<h1>University (math/applied math/total)</h1>

<p>1) Princeton (16/1/17)
2) Berkeley (8/6/14)
3) Stanford (5/8/13)
4) Harvard (9/1/10)
4) MIT (7/3/10)</p>

<p>membership of National academy of science in physics and applied physics</p>

<h1>University (physics/applied physics/total)</h1>

<p>1) Berkeley (17/4/21)
2) MIT (13/5/18)
3) Stanford (12/2/14)
3) Princeton (11/3/14)
5) Harvard (10/2/12)</p>

<p>source: [National</a> Academy of Sciences:](<a href=“http://www.nasonline.org/site/Dir?sid=1011&view=basic&pg=srch]National”>National Academy of Sciences)</p>

[prodigalson]

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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>