Johns Hopkins vs UMD vs Georgetown

OnMyWay2013
Thu, 07 Apr 2016 23:33:13 +0000

I actually just changed my major to AMS this year (before junior year), so I don’t have the same perspective as someone who’s been AMS since freshman year. There are definitely many opportunities to get involved in research across disciplines. Upper-level courses can be really good or really challenging depending on the professor and how many graduate students are in the classes. Personally, my Diff EQ and Calc III professors were some of the nicest, funniest, and most invested out of the math classes I’ve taken. For me, it’s not as much an issue of not caring about teaching as it is not being trained to teach students who don’t know everything they do. The Math and AMS departments are completely separate, though, and I’ve only taken three classes in the Math department, so it may be the case that NixonDenier’s friends are correct.