You're absolutely right. They do "amount to the same thing". I'am afraid you have been the victim of naming propaganda(It's the content that counts).
It is named "Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences" as you point out. But the mathematics part have a myriad of subdepartments, covering most fields of mathematics. Students undergoing what amounts to a Bachelor degree, is somewhere around thousand. Obvioulsy the numbers taking a Masters is mearly in the hundres.
So while Waterloo may have one of the few "Faculty of Mathematics" in the world, just about everybody else offers the same content that they do. That was my point, look beyond the name...
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It is named "Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences" as you point out. But the mathematics part have a myriad of subdepartments, covering most fields of mathematics. Students undergoing what amounts to a Bachelor degree, is somewhere around thousand. Obvioulsy the numbers taking a Masters is mearly in the hundres.
So while Waterloo may have one of the few "Faculty of Mathematics" in the world, just about everybody else offers the same content that they do. That was my point, look beyond the name...
Just like all the universities in Norway(and just about everywhere else in the world).