2023 Most Popular Mathematics & Statistics Schools
Finding the Best Mathematics & Statistics School for You
In 2020-2021, 15,127 people earned a degree or certificate in mathematics and statistics, making the major the #14 most popular in the United States.
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To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Most Popular Mathematics & Statistics Schools ranking. This report analyzed 423 schools in the United States to see which ones were the most popular programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Mathematics & Statistics program at each school on the list.
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2023 Most Popular Mathematics & Statistics Schools in the United States
The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Mathematics & Statistics Colleges.
Top 25 Most Popular Schools in Mathematics & Statistics
Our 2023 rankings named Columbia University in the City of New York the most popular school in the United States for mathematics and statistics students. Located in the city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Chicago. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Most Popular Mathematics & Statistics Schools list. Located in the city of Chicago, UChicago is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend New York University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Most Popular Mathematics & Statistics Schools list. NYU is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of New York.
The excellent programs at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best mathematics and statistics schools in the United States. Harrisburg University of Science and Technology is a small private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Harrisburg.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Most Popular Mathematics & Statistics Schools list. UIUC is a fairly large public school located in the city of Champaign.
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University of Connecticut landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the most popular mathematics and statistics programs. UCONN is a very large public school located in the suburb of Storrs.
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North Carolina State University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular schools for mathematics and statistics students. It came in at #7 on the list. NC State is a very large public school located in the large city of Raleigh.
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George Washington University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Most Popular Mathematics & Statistics Schools ranking. Located in the large city of Washington, GWU is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.
Johns Hopkins University ranked #9 on this year’s Most Popular Mathematics & Statistics Schools list. Located in the large city of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.
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University of Michigan - Ann Arbor landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the most popular mathematics and statistics programs. U-M is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Ann Arbor.
University of Washington - Seattle Campus ranked #11 on this year’s Most Popular Mathematics & Statistics Schools list. Located in the city of Seattle, UW Seattle is a public school with a fairly large student population.
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The University of Texas at Dallas did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular schools for mathematics and statistics students. It came in at #12 on the list. Located in the midsize city of Richardson, UT Dallas is a public school with a very large student population.
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With a ranking of #13, Ohio State University - Main Campus did quite well on this year’s most popular schools for mathematics and statistics students. Ohio State is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Columbus.
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With a ranking of #14, University of California - Berkeley did quite well on this year’s most popular schools for mathematics and statistics students. UC Berkeley is a fairly large public school located in the midsize city of Berkeley.
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University of California - San Diego ranked #15 on this year’s Most Popular Mathematics & Statistics Schools list. Located in the large city of La Jolla, UCSD is a public college with a very large student population.
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Indiana University - Bloomington came in at #16 in this year’s edition of the Most Popular Mathematics & Statistics Schools ranking. Located in the small city of Bloomington, IU Bloomington is a public college with a very large student population.
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Boston University came in at #17 in this year’s edition of the Most Popular Mathematics & Statistics Schools ranking. Boston U is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Boston.
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With a ranking of #18, Texas A&M University - College Station did quite well on this year’s most popular schools for mathematics and statistics students. Located in the city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public school with a fairly large student population.
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With a ranking of #19, Clark University did quite well on this year’s most popular schools for mathematics and statistics students. Clark is a small private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of Worcester.
With a ranking of #20, Vanderbilt University did quite well on this year’s most popular schools for mathematics and statistics students. Vanderbilt is a large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Nashville.
Stevens Institute of Technology ranked #21 on this year’s Most Popular Mathematics & Statistics Schools list. Located in the large suburb of Hoboken, Stevens is a private not-for-profit school with a medium-sized student population.
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With a ranking of #21, University of Wisconsin - Madison did quite well on this year’s most popular schools for mathematics and statistics students. UW - Madison is a fairly large public school located in the city of Madison.
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Stanford University landed the #23 spot in the 2023 rankings for the most popular mathematics and statistics programs. Located in the suburb of Stanford, Stanford is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.
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University of California - Irvine ranked #24 on this year’s Most Popular Mathematics & Statistics Schools list. UC Irvine is a very large public school located in the large city of Irvine.
Washington University in St Louis came in at #25 in this year’s edition of the Most Popular Mathematics & Statistics Schools ranking. Located in the suburb of Saint Louis, WUSTL is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.
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Rest of the Top Most Popular Mathematics & Statistics Schools
Additional Award Winners
This section represents the rest of the schools awarded a Most Popular Mathematics & Statistics Schools badge. Showing in this list means the college was ranked in the top 15% of the 423 different United States mathematics and statistics schools we analyzed.
| Rank | College | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 51 | Villanova University | Villanova, PA |
| 52 | Baruch College | New York, NY |
| 53 | DePaul University | Chicago, IL |
| 54 | Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA |
| 55 | University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ |
| 56 | Boston College | Chestnut Hill, MA |
| 57 | Georgia State University | Atlanta, GA |
| 57 | Oregon State University | Corvallis, OR |
| 57 | University of Iowa | Iowa City, IA |
| 60 | University at Buffalo | Buffalo, NY |
| 61 | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA |
| 62 | Michigan Technological University | Houghton, MI |
| 63 | California State University - East Bay | Hayward, CA |
Honorable Mentions
Here are some additional popular schools for Mathematics & Statistics students that almost earned our Most Popular Mathematics & Statistics Schools award.
| Rank | College | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 64 | Northwestern University | Evanston, IL |
| 64 | Duke University | Durham, NC |
| 64 | Virginia Tech | Blacksburg, VA |
| 67 | University of Colorado Boulder | Boulder, CO |
| 67 | Rochester Institute of Technology | Rochester, NY |
| 69 | University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA |
| 69 | Pepperdine University | Malibu, CA |
| 71 | Colorado State University - Fort Collins | Fort Collins, CO |
| 71 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy, NY |
| 73 | California State University - Long Beach | Long Beach, CA |
| 73 | University of Kansas | Lawrence, KS |
| 75 | Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY |
| 76 | Harvard University | Cambridge, MA |
| 76 | Princeton University | Princeton, NJ |
| 76 | University of North Carolina at Charlotte | Charlotte, NC |
| 79 | Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI |
| 79 | Rice University | Houston, TX |
| 81 | University of Cincinnati - Main Campus | Cincinnati, OH |
| 82 | University at Albany | Albany, NY |
| 82 | The University of Tennessee - Knoxville | Knoxville, TN |
| 84 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC |
Mathematics & Statistics by Region
View the Most Popular Mathematics & Statistics Schools for a specific region near you.
| Region |
|---|
| Southeast |
| New England |
| Rocky Mountains |
| Plains States |
| Middle Atlantic |
| Far Western US |
| Southwest |
| Great Lakes |
Mathematics & Statistics Related Majors
Mathematics & Statistics Majors to Study
| Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Applied Mathematics | 6,283 |
| Statistics | 4,594 |
| Mathematics | 3,764 |
| Applied Statistics | 388 |
| Other Statistics | 98 |
Most Popular Related Majors
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Engineering | 61,791 |
| Computer & Information Sciences | 60,971 |
| Biological & Biomedical Sciences | 28,851 |
| Physical Sciences | 12,705 |
| Engineering Technologies | 7,672 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 25 schools only.
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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