Graduate Admissions

Welcome prospective graduate students! The Math Department admits new graduate students to the Fall Semester only. The next admissions cycle will be for Fall 2010.


Email Math Graduate Admissions: After reading the following material, if you have further questions on admission to our program, you can send e-mail to grad-admissions@math.berkeley.edu.

Online Application Deadline: December 11, 2009
Supplemental Materials (including letters of recommendation) Deadline: January 2, 2010

There are two parts to the application, as follows:
  1. The Graduate Division's Online Application. (As of early September, 2009, this will be available at http://grad.berkeley.edu/admissions/online_app_inst.shtml);

  2. The Math Department's Supplemental Application Forms, listed below. You will need to send the supplemental forms via regular mail directly to the Math Department at the following address:

    Graduate Assistant
    University of California
    Department of Mathematics
    910 Evans Hall
    Berkeley, CA 94720-3840

The Math Department Supplemental Application Forms listed below are available in Portable Document Format (PDF). The PDF forms may be viewed and printed using Adobe Acrobat. The free Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) Reader allows you to view, navigate and print PDF files across all major computing platforms. If you do not have it installed, you may obtain it from the Adobe Web site.


In addition to completing the above forms, US applicants may submit the following Mathematics Opportunity Committee (MOC) forms.


A note on the GRE exams: We require both the General GRE and the Mathematics Subject GRE exams. You should take both tests no later than November. The Educational Testing Service will send your scores to the institutions you specify when you take the exams. Our departmental code is 0703. Additional information about the GRE exams, and how to register, can be obtained on the web at http://www.GRE.org.