We appreciate your interest in our graduate program. Here are some of the things we have to offer.

 

• A highly ranked graduate program, consistently in the top 25 nationwide.
• A large and distinguished graduate faculty (approximately 66 members in the mathematics department, and 20 additional members in other departments affiliated with the mathematics graduate program) with expertise in a wide range of areas of mathematics including algebra, analysis, geometry and topology, logic, number theory, applied analysis, discrete mathematics and mathematical physics.
• About 25 formal graduate courses each semester, and a large number of weekly seminars in mathematics and related subjects. Students and faculty frequently attend seminars at Columbia, CUNY, the Institute for Advanced Study, NYU, and Princeton.
• Excellent fellow students from whom you'll learn a lot. Our students come from a wide variety of domestic and foreign backgrounds. We typically receive about 300 applications per year and admit about 35, of whom 12-15 enroll. The student/faculty ratio is very favorable, with about 80 Ph.D. students and over 80 graduate faculty.
• Among recent graduates, C. Stucchio, W. Pegden and P. Wood have won NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships, R. Holowinsky and X. Li have won Sloan Fellowships, and R. Holowinsky has won the Sastra Ramanujan Prize.
• Excellent financial support: all of our current PhD students have been on full financial support in the form of teaching assistantships, research assistantships, and fellowships since their arrival (TA nine month stipends are $24,961 for fall 2011; fellowshp stipends vary from $23,000 to $35,000. Nine out of the 14 students who entered in fall 2011 are on fellowships); and we try to maintain financial support to all full-time Ph.D. students making good progress in our program.
• Teaching and research assistants are university employees, with full health benefits. Fellows get health insurance from a separate plan.
• Our support resources for first year students include several federal GAANN fellowships (Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need) which pay up to $30,000 for the year. (These come from a Department of Education grant the runs from 2009 to 2012.)
• A high completion rate. About 70% of students who join our program obtain a Ph.D.
• A solid record of job placement. More than 90% of our graduates in the period 2000-2009 have found an initial position in academia; others opted for employment in industry or government.
• A commitment to training students to be teachers as well as researchers, and to building a diverse population of students.
• A large campus supporting a wide range of activities, with an easy train ride to New York City and Princeton. The Atlantic Ocean and good hiking are also close by!

The links along the left margin lead to additional information about the Ph.D. program.