Admission to the University of Washington
Math Department graduate program is highly competitive, and is based
on an assessment of your ability to complete a graduate degree.
The minimum requirements to be considered for admission to any UW
graduate program are a bachelor's degree from an accredited college
or university in the U.S. or its equivalent from a foreign institution,
and an overall grade-point average of 3.0 (B) in your most recent
two years of study. To have a realistic chance of completing
a graduate degree program in mathematics, you should have received
grades of at least 3.5 (A–/B+) in most of your mathematics
courses.
For admission to the Mathematics Department,
at least 5 full-year courses (30 semester hours or 45 quarter hours)
in mathematics are required beyond precalculus. Every entering mathematics
graduate student should be thoroughly familiar with the following
basic subjects:
- advanced calculus (one variable
and multivariable)
- differential equations
- linear algebra
Rigorous advanced undergraduate courses
in both of the following subjects are required for admission to the
PhD track; applicants to a Master's program should have had a course
in at least one of these:
- abstract algebra (groups, rings,
fields)
- real analysis (theory of differentiation
and integration, uniform convergence, metric spaces)
In addition, courses in the following
subjects are recommended for PhD applicants but not required:
- complex analysis
- topology
Promising PhD applicants not meeting
the requirements for admission to the PhD track are sometimes offered
admission to the Master's program, with an option of applying to transfer
to the PhD track at the end of their first year.
The Mathematics Department accepts
applications for Visiting Graduate Student
and Graduate Non-Matriculated
status, but the application procedures are somewhat different; see
the relevant Web pages for more information.
For more information about the University's
requirements for admission to graduate school, see the UW
Graduate Admissions Web page. |
