2025 Best Mathematics Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

Mathematics is of the hottest bachelor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #25 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.

College Factual looked at 57 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Mathematics Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 3,664 bachelor's degrees in mathematics during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Mathematics School for Your Bachelor's Degree

The math bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on mathematics students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of mathematics students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt mathematics students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized mathematics related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for mathematics students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Mathematics Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Mathematics Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Mathematics in the Middle Atlantic Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in mathematics. Only those schools that rank in the top 20% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.

11 Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Math

1

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

102 Annual Graduates

$83,171 Median Starting Salary

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in mathematics has to look into Johns Hopkins University. Located in the large city of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.

Mathematics bachelor's degree recipients from Johns Hopkins University get an earnings boost of approximately $31,001 above the typical earnings of mathematics majors.

More information about a bachelor’s in mathematics from Johns Hopkins University

2

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

45 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in mathematics has to check out University of Pennsylvania. UPenn is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Philadelphia.More information about a bachelor’s in mathematics from University of Pennsylvania

3

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

103 Annual Graduates

$87,251 Median Starting Salary

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in mathematics has to take a look at Cornell University. Located in the city of Ithaca, Cornell is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.

Those mathematics students who get their bachelor's degree from Cornell University earn $35,081 more than the typical math student.

More information about a bachelor’s in mathematics from Cornell University

4

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

27 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in mathematics needs to check out Carnegie Mellon University. Carnegie Mellon is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Pittsburgh.More information about a bachelor’s in mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University

5

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, MD

191 Annual Graduates

$79,129 Median Starting Salary

Located in the suburb of College Park, UMCP is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Mathematics bachelor's degree recipients from University of Maryland - College Park earn a boost of approximately $26,959 over the typical earnings of mathematics majors.

More information about a bachelor’s in mathematics from University of Maryland - College Park

6

Villanova University
Villanova, PA

38 Annual Graduates

$75,481 Median Starting Salary

Villanova is a large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Villanova.

Mathematics bachelor's degree recipients from Villanova University receive an earnings boost of about $23,311 above the typical earnings of mathematics majors.

More information about a bachelor’s in mathematics from Villanova University

7

New York University
New York, NY

126 Annual Graduates

$58,481 Median Starting Salary

NYU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of New York.

Mathematics bachelor's degree recipients from New York University get an earnings boost of about $6,311 above the typical earnings of mathematics majors.

More information about a bachelor’s in mathematics from New York University

8

Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, NY

58 Annual Graduates

Columbia is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of New York.More information about a bachelor’s in mathematics from Columbia University in the City of New York

9

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY

75 Annual Graduates

$80,196 Median Starting Salary

Located in the small city of Troy, RPI is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.

Bachelor's recipients from the mathematics degree program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute get $28,026 more than the typical college grad with the same degree when they enter the workforce.

More information about a bachelor’s in mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

10

Georgetown University
Washington, DC

49 Annual Graduates

$88,081 Median Starting Salary

Georgetown is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Washington.

Mathematics bachelor's degree recipients from Georgetown University receive an earnings boost of about $35,911 above the average earnings of mathematics graduates.

More information about a bachelor’s in mathematics from Georgetown University

11

University of Rochester
Rochester, NY

49 Annual Graduates

$45,426 Median Starting Salary

University of Rochester is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Rochester.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the math program make about $45,426 in their early career salary.

More information about a bachelor’s in mathematics from University of Rochester

Honorable Mentions

Here are some additional great schools for Mathematics students in the Middle Atlantic Region that almost earned our Best Mathematics Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region award.

Rank	College	Location
12	Binghamton University	Vestal, NY
13	Rutgers University - New Brunswick	New Brunswick, NJ
14	Hamilton College	Clinton, NY
15	University of Delaware	Newark, DE
16	Drexel University	Philadelphia, PA
17	University at Buffalo	Buffalo, NY
18	Syracuse University	Syracuse, NY
19	St Lawrence University	Canton, NY

Best Mathematics Colleges by State

Explore the best mathematics schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	275	1,807
Pennsylvania	274	1,117
Maryland	207	605
New Jersey	193	584
Delaware	130	33
District of Columbia	126	124

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Rankings in Majors Related to Math

One of 4 majors within the Mathematics & Statistics area of study, Mathematics has other similar majors worth exploring.

Math Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Mathematics	3,650
Other Mathematics	14

Most Popular Majors Related to Math

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Applied Mathematics	957
Statistics	859
Other Statistics	303
Applied Statistics	21

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.