The Department of Mathematics and Statistics offers the MA , MS , MAT , and Ph.D. , and has nationally recognized faculty in algebra, analysis, combinatorics, differential equations, and applied mathematics and statistics. The Department of Physics and Astronomy offers the MS and Ph.D. degrees in physics or astronomy with strong theoretical and experimental research programs in atomic, molecular, and optical physics, condensed matter and materials physics, astronomy and astrophysics, high energy physics, and physics education. The MA program in the Department of Anthropology offers a science-based approach to anthropology emphasizing preparation for a career in anthropology or for entrance into a doctoral program. The Department features research and internship opportunities in Plains archaeology and ethnology, historic and cultural resource management archaeology, applied and development anthropology, and behavioral, ecological, and evolutionary approaches to human behavior. The Department of History prepares students for careers in research and teaching through its MA and Ph.D. degrees.
Every effort is made to provide the creative environment to sustain a community of scholars.
Carefully structured and individualized graduate programs afford maximum personal contact and consultation between graduate students and professors in seminars, directed individual readings, lecture courses, and supervised thesis research and writing. The Department offers a certificate program in policy analysis, and a joint MA and JD program with the Law School. The Department provides training in pure and applied research. At the MA level, students study methods and theory and pursue a broad course of study before writing a thesis. Doctoral candidates develop two specialties, choosing from approximately twenty substantive areas.