General Requirements
Requirements for the Master's Degree
Specific Requirements
Requirements for Admission to Graduate Studies for the Degree of Master of Science
Because of the breadth of pure and applied mathematics, it is recognized that applicants for admission will have diverse backgrounds. Admission requirements are therefore flexible. Applicants should have demonstrated strength in either pure or applied mathematics and a bachelor's degree with a major in mathematics or a closely related discipline.
Minimum Degree Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science
Each student must complete one of the following options:
- Twenty-four semester hours of acceptable graduate credits in advanced mathematics courses; six semester hours of thesis research culminating in a master's thesis, or
- Thirty semester hours of acceptable graduate credits in advanced mathematics courses; no thesis required.
Under either option students must take, or acquire the knowledge of the content in, the courses MATH 331 and MATH 333, and must satisfactorily complete at least four 300-level mathematics courses and the seminar 382. In both options, students must select a major concentration from among the areas: Analysis, Algebra, Applied Mathematics, or Discrete Mathematics. The concentration shall consist of at least nine approved hours in advanced mathematics courses in the respective area, three of which must be at the 300-level; students in option b. may count the six hours of thesis credit towards these nine hours. With the approval of the student's advisor up to six hours of courses outside mathematics may be used to fulfill the major or degree requirements.