Master of Philosophy in Mathematics

The Department of Mathematics of the University of Pennsylvania offers a full Graduate Program in Mathematics, conferring the degrees of Master of Arts (A.M.), Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.), and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) . The educational aim of this program is to provide well-rounded mathematical training for a career of research and teaching in mathematics, as well as for other careers which use advanced mathematics in a substantial way. The purpose of this document is to describe the graduate program in Mathematics at Penn. This program covers a variety of areas, including analysis, geometry-topology, algebra, mathematical physics, combinatorics, logic, and probability. See our Graduate Mathematics Page and our Math Department home page for information about other aspects of this program and of the Penn Math Department as a whole, including its colloquia, seminars and lecture series, and the research interests of the faculty. In addition, Penn offers an interdisciplinary graduate program in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, for which there is separate application process.

A Bachelors degree (but not a master\u2019s degree) is required for entrance to the program. Admission to M.Phil. candidacy is achieved by passing the Graduate Preliminary Exam, and the oral M.Phil. Preliminary Exam.

On the TOEFL, we look for total scores of at least 100, and scores of at least 20 on the spoken English portion.