Students with no prior graduate course work must complete 54 credit hours of courses. A maximum of 6 credit hours of research (MATH 868) is allowed to count towards the 54 credit hour requirement. A GPA of 3.0 or better must be maintained. Of the 54 hours, a maximum of 27 credit hours of 600-level courses in the mathematics department is allowed. After completing their course requirements, students are expected to enroll for at least one course each semester (which may be as a listener) in addition to MATH 964 or MATH 969.
Students entering with a Bachelor's degree must pass the Preliminary Exam in order to continue beyond their second year (beyond the first year for those entering with a Master's degree). A second written exam, the Candidacy Exam, must be passed in order for a student to be admitted to the Ph.D. candidacy. The department requires the Ph.D. candidate to have reading knowledge of one of four languages: French, German, Italian or Russian. Substitution may be allowed upon petition.
MATH 600, MATH 602, MATH 611, MATH 616, MATH 672, MATH 806, MATH 807.