Ohio State Graduate Program

I received the following email today --- you can't beat a $5 application fee (well, you can, if they just waive it...  but $5 ain't bad).  And it's pretty unusual to get full funding as a Master's student.

The Ohio State Graduate Program in Mathematics is inviting applications to both its MMS and PhD degree programs. We are expecting to recruit a total of about 30 students for Autumn 2011. Below a few highlights that your graduating undergraduate majors and Masters students may be interested in.

• Application Fee for both mathematics graduate degree programs is only five dollars($5).
• All students admitted to either the MMS or the PhD program are fully supported for as long as they pursue and progress towards their degrees.
• The Master of Mathematical Sciences (MMS) is a new degree program divided into specialization tracks. We plan to recruit about 6 students for each track per year. We currently offer the following two specialization tracks:
  
  • Mathematical Biology:
    This degree track is co-sponsored by the NSF Mathematical Biosciences Institute at OSU. Research and thesis projects are in collaboration, among others, with the OSU departments of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Molecular Genetics, and Microbiology, as well as the OSU Medical Center. For more details see
    
    http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/ms/bio
  • Mathematics for Educators:
    This degree track serves students with interest in the teaching and, more broadly, the communication of mathematics. The curriculum emphasizes a thorough background in core areas of mathematics as well as courses specially designed in collaboration with the OSU Department of Education and Human Ecology. For more information see
    
    http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/ms/edu
  We plan to introduce additional specializations in Computational Sciences (2012) and Financial Mathematics (2013).
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD): We expect to admit 16-19 students to our PhD-program. We had several faculty hires as well as implemented curricular changes which significantly strengthened and invigorated our PhD-program. We are particularly pleased with numerous very competitive post-doctoral job placements of our recent PhD graduates. For more details see
  
  http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/pdh

We would greatly appreciate if you could forward this information to interested mathematics majors, undergraduate math counselors, advisors of MS students, or anyone else in your department who would benefit from information about graduate studies in mathematics.
Detailed information and instructions regarding applications can be found at

http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/apply

Deadline for applications to all programs is

January 2^nd, 2011.

Please don't hesitate to contact me in case you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Thomas Kerler

Vice-Chair for Graduate Studies
Department of Mathematics
The Ohio State University
kerler.2@osu.edu
(614) 292-5252