Colleges for Math in Georgia

Georgia Institute of Technology

• According to U.S. News and World Report's rankings for 2008, the Georgia Institute of Technology was rated as one of the best colleges for math in the United States. The magazine placed Georgia Tech as the 36th highest math program in the nation. Georgia Tech is known for its math, science and engineering departments, which often collaborate on interdisciplinary research projects. Georgia Tech offers a bachelor of science degree in applied mathematics and one in discrete mathematics. The graduate program offers a Master of Science degree in applied math and a doctorate. The master's program is an interdisciplinary studies program that has three areas of emphasis: computational sciences and engineering, quantitative and computational finance and statistics. The doctorate concentrations include algorithms, combinatorics, and optimization, computational sciences and engineering and bioinformatics.

  Georgia Institute of Technology
  School of Mathematics
  686 Cherry Street
  Atlanta, GA 30332
  404-894-2700
  math.gatech.edu

University of Georgia

• The Department of Mathematics at the University of Georgia in Athens ranked 55th in the nation, according to the U.S. News and World Report rankings for 2008. As the second highest rated college for math in Georgia, the school's math department is one of the largest departments of the university. At the undergraduate level, the college offers the Bachelor of Science in Mathematics. It also offers a dual bachelor's degree, allowing students to also major in Mathematics Education. At the graduate level, the college offers two different master's degrees, which include the Master of Arts and the Master of Applied Mathematical Sciences. The college also offers a Ph.D in the field.

  University of Georgia
  Department of Mathematics
  Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
  Athens, GA 30602
  706-542-2211
  math.uga.edu/

Emory University

• Also ranked as one the top 100 math colleges in the nation, Emory University is Georgia's third ranked mathematics program. Emory is known internationally for many of its professional programs such as medicine, business and law. Emory's mathematics department offers three undergraduate degrees: the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and the Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics. The college also offers joint degrees in math with a second major in computer science, economics or political science. The accelerated program allow students to also obtain their master's degree while obtaining the bachelor's degree. A collaborative program offered in conjunction with Georgia Tech allows students to obtain a Bachelor of Arts degree from Emory while obtaining an engineering degree from Georgia Tech. Graduate degrees include the Master of Science degree and the Ph.D.

  Emory University
  Department of Math and Computer Science
  400 Dowman Drive
  Atlanta, GA 30322
  404-727-7580
  mathcs.emory.edu