Rice or WashU for math?

profparent
Tue, 05 May 2015 21:02:15 +0000

Both are great institutions, and their math departments have similar rankings (that’s for graduate school, but it still gives a sense of the reputation of the department). Rice is listed at #28 and Wash U at #39 (and as these kinds of rankings are not particularly precise, that makes them basically equivalent.) I am not personally familiar with either of their math departments, so you should look at the number and level of courses they offer carefully, but it certainly looks like this is a choice where you can feel confident you will get a very fine education both generally and in your major at either school.