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Penn State Math Graduate?

By admin on February 2, 2012

Does their grad school offer a B.S. in Computer Science as a part of the curriculum for the Math graduate degree?

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2 responses to “Penn State Math Graduate?”

  1. f00tballguy2002
    f00tballguy2002
    February 2, 2012 at 7:47 pm |

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  2. Edward W
    Edward W
    February 2, 2012 at 7:49 pm |

    I am not a Penn State math graduate, but I have looked at a number of graduate math programs to see how they are structured.

    In general, they do not offer combinations of BS in computer science and MS in math. This does not mean you cannot do such a combination, but you would have to separately meet the requirements of each program, which could be time consuming and costly.

    Looking at the Penn State program materials, I see that they would let you do an MS or Ph.d in math and a graduate minor in computational science. See the link here:

    http://www.psu.edu/bulletins/whitebook/$gminors.htm

    That would involve three courses for the MS minor program, and six for the Ph.d minor. To take graduate computational science courses you might need to take some undergraduate computer science prerequisites. The good news is that the graduate credits would count towards youe degree, and you would not need to extend the length of your program.

    Some universities let you do a Ph.d in math and an MS in computer science combination. They double count the courses so that you do not have to spend as much time in the programs as you ordinarily would. The University of Pennsylvania has such a program. See the link here:

    http://www.math.upenn.edu/grad/csma.html

    Finally, a growing number of universities are beginning to offer programs that combine math and computer science into one degree, under names such as Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization, or Applied and Computational Mathematics.

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