A completed personal vita form and essay. When all required material is received, the Graduate School will forward the applicant's material to the Graduate Coordinator in the Mathematics Department for approval of admission. The final decision to admit or reject an applicant rests with the university through the dean of Graduate Studies. Every graduate student is required to take comprehensive examinations in Calculus I-II and linear algebra. These exams are taken at the beginning of the second semester of enrollment.
Students are limited to two attempts on each of the exams.
The chair of the student's committee will ordinarily direct the research and preparation of the thesis. After selecting a topic, the student, in consultation with the student's committee, must prepare a tentative outline. This outline must be kept current during the preparation of the thesis and contained in the student's graduate folder. Required Core Courses At ETSU, each standard mathematics class is for 3 semester hours of credit. I, Statistical Methods I, Graph Theory, Numerical Analysis or Topology.