A comprehensive examination must be passed. Details are available in the department office. In addition to departmental requirements, every student must also satisfy the university requirements for graduation which are described in the Graduate and Post-baccalaureate Studies chapter at the beginning of the graduate section of this catalog. Before being Advanced to Candidacy, a student's complete course of study must be approved by the Mathematics Graduate Studies Committee. A comprehensive examination must be passed.
Details are available in the department office.
In addition to departmental requirements, every student must also satisfy the university requirements for graduation which are described in the Graduate and Post-baccalaureate Studies chapter at the beginning of the graduate section of this catalog. May be repeated once for credit with consent of Mathematics Graduate Studies Committee. May include topics from the classification of groups, abelian groups, unique factorization domains, principal ideal domains, finite field theory, field extensions, modules, vector spaces, homological algebra. Topics may include countability and separation axioms, Tychonoff theorem, metrization theorems, homotopy theory. May be repeated for credit with consent of Mathematics Graduate Studies Committee.