University Rankings: Mathematics

Mathematics is an ancient discipline. The earliest examples of non-trivial mathematical methods date back some 5000 years ago.

There are many things to check before picking a discipline. It wouldn't hurt to make some preliminary research, and wikipedia can be a good source for that. If you are considering mathematics, why not go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics? Hardly a bad place to start.

Another thing you might want to check is the average and/or median salary for that discipline. You can find that out in your national bureau of labor statistics. This is the U.S. bureau of Labor Statistics' page with data about mathematicians: http://www.bls.gov/oes/2009/may/oes152021.htm.

If you've decided mathematics is your desired field of interest, one of the next steps would be to find out the right university: Find the Top Universities for Mathematics:

The following ranking is the ARWU ("Academic Ranking of World Universities") ranking for Universities, solely for the discipline of mathematics:

World Rank	Institution*	Country	Score on Alumni	Score on Award	Score on HiCi	Score on PUB	Score on TOP	Total Score
1	Princeton University		85.8	100.0	77.0	70.9	92.9	100.0
2	University of California, Berkeley		56.2	53.5	95.2	78.7	86.0	93.8
3	Harvard University		85.8	70.7	83.5	62.0	91.4	93.6
4	Stanford University		0.0	26.7	100.0	69.3	99.6	85.0
5	University of Cambridge		88.9	80.2	59.1	57.3	84.7	84.9
6	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6		64.9	0.0	69.9	89.7	74.3	77.5
7	University of Oxford		45.9	53.5	64.7	64.3	80.1	77.4
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)		0.0	37.8	64.7	73.1	87.7	74.0
9	University of Paris Sud (Paris 11)		51.3	80.2	26.4	73.8	77.2	73.4
10	University of California, Los Angeles		0.0	59.8	52.8	69.5	83.3	72.0
11	University of Chicago		32.4	26.7	52.8	60.6	96.3	71.2
12	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities		0.0	0.0	81.4	65.6	91.2	71.1

For more, you can go to http://www.arwu.org/SubjectMathematics2010.jsp.