Good school for mathematics?

dilksy
Sun, 25 May 2008 21:24:43 +0000

I’d go for a slightly bigger school that has a graduate program, if you plan to continue on with math past undergrad. Much wider range of classes, and the upper level classes will be offered more frequently. I was looking at St Olaf’s math department web page, since I had never heard St Olaf before. A lot of their upper level classes are only offered every other year or sporadically, which can make fitting everything in before graduation a hassle. They also don’t have any classes past the basic introductory graduate-level material (complex analysis/real analysis/topology/modern algebra), and most of the top students at good schools take at least a few classes past that. Apparently Reed at least offers those classes every year, but they seem to have very much beyond that (topics classes appear to almost exclusively on computer science applications). I think there was one LAC that had a non-trivial selection of classes past that stuff, but I can’t remember which one (not one of the schools listed).