Admission Requirements

Applicants wishing to enter either the master of science in mathematics degree program or the doctor of philosophy in computational science with an emphasis in mathematics degree program must satisfy the requirements of the Office of Graduate Studies. Among those factors considered in the admission decision are the GPA, submission of test scores on the GRE, and three letters of recommendation from persons qualified to assess the candidate's readiness for graduate study. Letters should be sent to the department. Students whose native language is not English must achieve a score of 580 or above on the TOEFL exam.

Background Information about the Graduate Program

Current research areas include topics in numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and dynamical systems.

Quality teaching is in small classes. Teaching assistantships are available for both the M.S. and Ph.D. degree programs. Support totals $20,728. The TA stipend is $10,000 for nine months, but tuition and non-resident fees are waived for both the academic year and the following summer.

Mathematics is housed in the College of Science and Technology. The University of Southern Mississippi has achieved Carnegie doctoral/research-extensive status by virtue of research strengths within the college. Visit the college's Web site for more information: www.usm.edu/colleges/cost/ .

The University of Southern Mississippi is one of the state's three designated comprehensive universities and is Mississippi 's second largest and fastest-growing institution of higher learning. It was founded in 1910 as a state-supported normal college and became a comprehensive university in 1962. On-campus enrollment is about 14,500, and the university numbers 698 full-time faculty members, including 542 who hold doctoral degrees. Visit the university's Web site for more information: www.usm.edu .

The 1090-acre wooded campus is situated in Hattiesburg , a community of about 50,000 residents located within Forrest and Lamar Counties with a population of 111,000. The two-county area is an attractive retirement location with over 12 golf courses. As the educational and medical hub of south central Mississippi , Hattiesburg offers the multicultural influences of traditional southern hospitality, famous New Orleans Creole cuisine, recreational opportunities, and proximity to the beautiful Mississippi Sound . It lies 90 miles south of the state capital at Jackson , 70 miles north of the Mississippi Gulf Coast , 75 miles northwest of Mobile , and 105 miles northeast of New Orleans . Hattiesburg is 75 miles from NASA's Stennis Space Center , which houses many federal and state research organizations. Important among these research centers is one of the Department of Defense's four Major Shared Resource Centers for high-performance computing. Visit the city's Web site for more information: www.hattiesburgms.com/ .