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 2012.
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 [at] math [dot] berkeley [dot] edu.
On-line Application
Our online Application Deadline: December 9, 2011.
Supplemental materials (letters of recommendation and test scores) should be received no later than January 2, 2012.
The Graduate Division's Online Application is available as of September 6, 2011 at: http://grad.berkeley.edu/admissions/index.shtml.
Please read the information on Graduate Division requirements and information required to complete the application.
We require three letters of recommendation, which should be submitted
online. If your letter writers prefer to submit paper letters, please
have the letters sent to:
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Graduate Assistant
University of California
Department of Mathematics
910 Evans Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-3840
Letters should be received by January 2, 2012 when our review process will begin.
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.
International Students
All applicants from countries in which the official language is not
English are required to submit official evidence of English language
proficiency. This requirement applies to applicants from Bangladesh,
Nepal, India, Pakistan, Latin America, the Middle East, Israel, the
People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, most
European countries, and non-English-speaking countries in Africa.
If you have completed at least one year of full-time academic course
work with grades of B or better in residence at a U.S. university, you
do not need to take a standardized test. Instead, you must submit an
official transcript from the U.S. university.
We will only accept TOEFL tests administered by the Educational Testing
Service and sent to us directly by the TOEFL office. Tests taken before
June 2010 will not be accepted, even if your score was reported to Berkeley. The institution code for Berkeley is 4833.
You may submit a photocopy of the Examinee’s Score Report for review
purposes only, but this is not a substitute for an official score
report.
For purposes of admission, your most recent score must be at least 68
for the Internet-based test (iBT). Students wishing to be appointed as
teaching assistants should have a score of 26 on the speaking section of
the iBT.
The MA in Math
In recent years few MA students have been admitted from outside the
university. A small number of pre-PhD students have been admitted.
These are promising candidates whose preparation is not yet sufficient
for PhD study, and who are initially admitted for the MA degrees. The
progress of pre-PhD students is reviewed late in the Spring semester.
Those deemed prepared are eligible to
advance to the PhD program, by completing a routine Petition to Change
Program, obtainable from the Graduate Assistant. Completion of the
requirements for the MA is not required.
After reading the following material, if you have further questions on admission to our program, you can send e-mail to grad-admissions [at] math [dot] berkeley [dot] edu.
