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The Equation Whisperers

Applied Mathematics

The Beautiful Minds

The absolute gods of numerical analysis and optimization. They don't write code, they write the proofs that prove the code will work. NYU Courant reigns supreme here.

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 New York University
New York, NY
New York, NY 190 9% 57% / 43% 77% $159,954 —
2 MIT
Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA 38 5% 63% / 37% 8% — —
3 Caltech
Pasadena, CA
Pasadena, CA 10 4% 50% / 50% 0% — —
4 Stanford
Stanford, CA
Stanford, CA 33 4% 61% / 39% 15% — —
5 Brown
Providence, RI
Providence, RI 189 5% 69% / 31% 19% $134,169 —

Wall Street Quants in Training

They learned stochastic calculus for the sole purpose of joining a hedge fund and buying a yacht. They treat the stock market like a giant differential equation.

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 Columbia
New York, NY
New York, NY 105 4% 56% / 44% 30% $153,221 —
2 U. of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL — 5% — — — —
3 U. of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia, PA 4 4% 75% / 25% 0% — —
4 Harvard
Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA 128 3% 57% / 43% 10% $165,109 —
5 Princeton
Princeton, NJ
Princeton, NJ — 4% — — — —

The Public Powerhouses

Doing the actual, grueling computational heavy lifting. They will likely be the ones designing the mathematical models that keep airplanes in the sky and power grids from failing.

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 U. of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Berkeley, CA 198 11% 66% / 34% 19% $128,043 —
2 UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA 336 9% 66% / 34% 28% $108,963 —
3 U. of Washington
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA 136 42% 57% / 43% 64% $116,919 —
4 U. of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Ann Arbor, MI — 16% — — — —
5 U. of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Austin, TX — 22% — — — —

Solid Modelers

Dependable problem solvers who actually understand physics and engineering contexts. Will build models that survive contact with the real world.

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 Georgia Tech
Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, GA — 13% — — — —
2 Purdue
West Lafayette, IN
West Lafayette, IN 27 43% 78% / 22% 33% — —
3 U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
Champaign, IL 131 37% 61% / 39% 29% $60,089 —
4 Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, TX
College Station, TX 94 52% 64% / 36% 3% $95,551 —
5 Harvey Mudd
Claremont, CA
Claremont, CA 52 9% 62% / 38% 4% — —