Algebra / Number Theory / Algebraic Geometry

Ranked in 2010, part of Math

Graduate students in algebra, number theory, and algebraic geometry courses build upon knowledge first learned in grade school. These are the best math schools for algebra / number theory / algebraic geometry programs.

Rank School name
#1 Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

#2 Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

#3 University of California–​Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

#4 University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

#5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA

#6 University of Michigan–​Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI

#7 Stanford University

Stanford, CA

#8 Columbia University

New York, NY

#9 University of California–​Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

#10 Yale University

New Haven, CT

#11 University of Wisconsin–​Madison

Madison, WI

#12 California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, CA

#12 Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

#12 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–​New Brunswick

Piscataway, NJ

#15 University of Illinois–​Urbana-​Champaign

Urbana, IL

#16 Brown University

Providence, RI

#16 University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

#18 University of California–​San Diego

La Jolla, CA

#18 University of Texas–​Austin

Austin, TX

#20 Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

Morse Code: Inside the College Rankings by Bob Morse
Correcting Dominican University of California's 2011 Admissions Statistics

Dominican misreported its number of applications to U.S. News and other data collectors.

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