<p>I am a freshman at the University of Mississippi interested in studying symbolic logic and mathematics. As one might imagine, at my current institution the programs in my areas of interest are rather weak and will not, I think, prepare me for graduate study. Where are some good universities to consider applying as a transfer student to?</p>
<p>Believe it or not one of my Dad’s business partners had a kid with exactly the same major. Her son went to Princeton, Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. I think he went all the way to a PhD. Good luck – with that major, you’ll most likely work in academia like this kid does now and love it. Not wealthy, but happy.</p>
<p>By the way, after undergraduate school, he was taken on as a paid TA at subsequent universities. I do not believe that he went into much debt for his masters and PhD.</p>
<p>The way he described his field to us lay people was very funny. He told us his major when asked and said, “We don’t contemplate 1+1=2. We generally ask, “Why 1?””</p>
<p>Figure out whether you’re more interested in philosophical logic or mathematical logic. They’re similar, but i think overall, very different. And generally schools that are good at one aren’t as good in the other. I might be getting the order wrong, but i think the best school at mathematical logic is Oxford, and the best one at philosophical logic is Cuny.</p>