Where can your student actually get into mathematics?

• 1158 colleges nationwide offer a bachelor's mathematics program: 1150 awarded the degree in 2022-23 (federal IPEDS completions); 8 more carry program earnings in federal outcome data but no 2022-23 degree count under these program codes.
• Largest programs by graduates in 2022-23: University of California-San Diego (615), University of California-Los Angeles (559), Stony Brook University (339).
• 64 of them are in California, the one state whose public systems (the University of California and the CSU) publish an admit rate into the major.
• Hardest reported gate into the program (only the UC and the CSU publish one): University of California-Berkeley — Applied Mathematics, Fall 2025: 2,105 applied, 476 admitted (23%).
• Highest reported admit rate into the program: California State University-San Bernardino — 99.3% (137 applied, 136 admitted, Fall 2025).
• Highest median earnings four years after the degree: Duke University, $297,029.
• Lowest average net price with aid: Texas A&M University-Central Texas, $1,300 per year.

No CSU campus reports mathematics on the transfer side only, the pattern that means freshmen enter as a pre-major and compete for the program later, so the first-year rate in the table is the one to plan around. A college showing no rate for the major has not published one, and that gap says nothing about how selective the program is. Admits are not enrollees. At most UC programs students are admitted to the campus, not the major. This page as JSON → · California only (64 colleges, with the UC and CSU gates) →

Every college, one row each

Colleges with a reported gate into the program come first, hardest first; the rest are sorted by earnings, then by graduates. Degree awarded is the program the college conferred bachelor's degrees in during 2022-23, with the number of graduates (federal IPEDS completions). Program admit rate is the college system's own number for this major (UC Information Center, CSU Chancellor's Office). Net price is the average paid by aid recipients; full price is the cost of attendance. Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians four years after the degree.