Overview
Applicants are not required to have an undergraduate degree in mathematics. Each concentration area has a set of required courses. Students completing a thesis qualify for a Plan A degree; a Plan B degree requires completion of a project, and a Plan C degree requires completion of course work plus passing the qualifying exams at the MS level.
Concentrations
All students pursuing an MS in mathematical sciences must choose one of four concentrations.
- Computational and Applied Mathematics
- Discrete Mathematics
- Pure Mathematics
- Statistics
Where you'll work
The opportunities for application are endless and more and more companies are recruiting graduates of the Mathematical Sciences program of Michigan Technological University because of the quality of the program. Jobs taken by recent graduates include development specialist at Praxair, Inc., data scientist at Starkey Hearing Technologies, and research associate at the Institute for Defense Analysis. Numerous graduates have taken faculty positions at universities or community colleges, and master’s degree graduates have gone on to PhD programs at universities such as Virginia Tech and the University of Delaware.Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Theoretical Numerical Analysis
- Numerical Linear Algebra
- Graph Theory
- Algebra
- Ordinary Differential Equations
- Mathematical Statistics
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 12 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
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Credits
Delivered
Disciplines
Mathematics Applied Mathematics Statistics View 549 other Masters in Statistics in United StatesAcademic requirements
English requirements
Other requirements
General requirements
- 3 Letters of Recommendation
- Résumé / Curriculum vitae
- Admitted applicants typically have an undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or better on a 4.0 scale
- GRE not required
- TOEFL: Required Score of 79 iBT
- IELTS: Required Overall Band Score of 6.5
Tuition Fee
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International
23332 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 23332 USD per year during 12 months. -
National
23332 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 23332 USD per year during 12 months.
Living costs for Houghton
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Funding
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