WPI vs Drexel vs Penn State University Park

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Mon, 04 Jan 2016 02:17:39 +0000

Considering you wish to study math and/or physics, Penn State will be your best bet. Given your large award from Drexel, it wouldn’t be a bad choice. WPI and Drexel have reasonably strong material science programs.

WPI and Drexel are engineering schools and their math programs are mostly oriented toward providing service courses for engineers. WPI is also a good choice if you want to be an actuary. It’s not that the math departments are very weak, but the offerings are limited. I looked at the Penn State UG math program and I’m not particularly impressed with it either, but it seems to have the fundamentals covered for graduate math study, like topology.