Does columbia make sense for an aspring physicist?

poopyhead123
Tue, 25 Aug 2015 17:04:41 +0000

Yes, I intend to become a theoretical physicist, after years and years of study.

The thing about Columbia is if you look at their website, Columbia is sort of special among the top ranking schools in that it makes you do more humanities than normal, regardless of the major OR you do the engineering school. But the engineering school website shows degrees for engineers only. So it really does seem that if one wanted to become a mathematician, one will need to take lots of pure mathematics courses which are not offered at the engineering school, and thus one will need to take lots of humanities.

By the way, at which of the top school can I take essentially only math and physics classes. I am thinking that at MIT and Caltech you can BS the humanities requirement is minimal, and even then you can BS your way out of it by taking classes like history of science.