Ranking of undergraduate mathematics programs

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Ranking of undergraduate mathematics programs among national research universities, based on the median number of students going on to earn a PhD in mathematics/statistics. The ranking is based on NCSES data tracing back the undergraduate institutions of candidates conferred doctorate degrees in mathematics/statistics in 2022[1], and using 2018 (4 years prior) CDS data to determine the number of undergraduate students who were conferred a bachelor's degree by that institution.

[1]. https://ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/earned-doctorates/2023

Rank	Institute	Median # of Math PhDs (last 10 years)	Math Bachelors Degrees (2018)	Total Bachelors Degrees (2018)	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018
1	U. California Berkeley	19	411	8213	21	20	16	24	26
2	U. Chicago	18	169	1597	21	20	15	11	18
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	16	105	1045	16	21	19	18	15
4	Princeton U.	13	39	1299	10	12	13	19	13
5	Harvard U.	13	183	1664	17	12	13	8	12
6	U. California Los Angeles	11	586	9160	28	24	15	14	7
7	California Institute of Technology	9	11	229	6	5	8	8	11
8	U. Michigan Ann Arbor	9	209	7450	7	7	11	13	14
9	Columbia U. in the City of New York	8	18	615	11	8	4	9	7
10	U. Texas Austin	8	287	9888	8	8	9	14	10
11	U. California San Diego	8	596	7445	12	4	3	8	6
12	Stanford U.	8	85	1697	10	3	7	7	6
13	Carnegie Mellon U.	7	158	1549	12	6	11	7	7
14	U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign	7	352	8133	7	5	8	12	7
15	U. Florida	7	134	8864	10	9	5	4	7
16	Cornell U.	7	55	3675	6	12	2	9	6
17	Harvey Mudd C.	7	7	184	3	7	3	3	12
18	Ohio State U. Columbus	7	195	11349	6	6	8	4	9
19	U. Washington Seattle	6	223	7987	12	5	8	4	7
20	U. Minnesota Twin Cities	6	326	7811	10	12	9	6	6
21	Brown U.	6	122	1696	12	4	9	6	12
22	U. Wisconsin – Madison	6	223	7198	13	5	7	2	8
23	Yale U.	6	93	1313	8	9	2	2	4
24	U. California Davis	6	352	8802	4	7	7	7	0
25	U. North Carolina Chapel Hill	6	177	4628	14	5	6	5	7
26	Stony Brook U.	6	324	4435	7	7	9	10	5
27	U. Maryland College Park	6	166	7559	4	9	6	4	8
28	Georgia Institute of Technology	6	35	3516	5	4	7	3	7
29	New York U.	5	138	6323	7	4	4	9	7
30	Rice U.	5	52	1006	11	2	7	6	4
31	Duke U.	5	91	2280	6	8	3	4	3
32	U. Rochester	5	81	1756	7	6	5	5	8
33	Rutgers State U. New Jersey New Brunswick	5	223	8577	9	3	4	3	4
34	U. Notre Dame	5	109	2173	4	1	10	6	2
35	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	5	43	1425	4	5	3	5	4
36	Swarthmore C.	5	41	411	6	3	5	5	5
37	Carleton C.	5	43	487	4	5	6	5	3
38	North Carolina State U.	5	137	5786	6	4	3	4	8
39	Williams C.	5	93	540	5	7	2	3	3
40	Pennsylvania State U.	4	280	11563	3	7	8	6	12
41	U. California Santa Barbara	4	456	6329	4	2	5	8	4
42	St. Olaf C.	4	65	681	3	9	8	4	3
43	Texas A&M U. College Station	4	104	12475	7	3	5	4	2
44	Michigan State U.	4	119	9120	5	9	3	5	4
45	Pomona C.	4	51	419	4	5	3	5	7
46	U. Pennsylvania	4	56	2808	2	6	3	4	4
47	U. Georgia	4	94	7450	5	5	5	3	4
48	Washington U. Saint Louis	4	73	1823	4	3	4	9	3
49	Northwestern U.	3	148	2140	7	3	2	3	8
50	Tufts U.	3	31	1402	5	4	0	3	4
51	U. Virginia Charlottesville	3	55	4178	3	3	13	4	2
52	U. Pittsburgh Pittsburgh	3	112	4668	3	3	3	4	0
53	Dartmouth C.	3	46	1145	2	3	4	3	2
54	U. California Irvine	3	179	7600	2	3	10	1	3
55	Boston U.	3	118	4706	1	2	3	6	5
56	Purdue U. West Lafayette	3	239	6792	1	5	2	6	2
57	Florida State U.	3	97	8791	0	5	2	2	3
58	Bowdoin C.	3	34	489	3	1	4	1	1
59	Case Western Reserve U.	3	34	1181	3	6	2	2	2
60	William & Mary	3	46	1558	4	2	0	2	2
61	Emory U. Atlanta	3	135	2000	1	3	2	4	4

Posted Mar 19, 2025, 4:13 PM UTC

Ranking of **undergraduate** mathematics programs

Ranking of undergraduate mathematics programs