All students admitted to our Ph.D. program receive a Research/Teaching Assistantship as well as significant Tuition and Hostel Fee waivers. SNU's PhD fellowship is among the highest in the country. Please consult the section on admission for details.
Continuation of the assistantship is contingent on satisfactory performance in the program evaluated continuously, and compliance with all University regulations. Further, the scholarship is only offered for the regular duration of the Ph.D. program (i.e. eight semesters).
The research interests of the faculty members vary across areas of both pure and applied mathematics, such as functional and harmonic analysis, representation theory, differential geometry, number theory, encryption, game theory, graph theory, category theory, differential equations, signal processing, computational methods, statistics, mathematical finance, mathematical biology, and medical imaging.
The Department of Mathematics has a FIST grant that has funded a computational lab with high speed computers, workstation, and server. The FIST grant has also funded a department library. The university also provides generous grants to the department for book purchases and journal subscriptions. Further, SNU has a campus-wide license for Matlab that allows unrestricted access from home or office to all students and faculty members.
A B.A./B.Sc./B.S./B.Tech. Degree in Mathematics/Physics/Science/Engineering or similar disciplines with overall marks of at least 50% (or equivalent grade). Final year students can apply on the basis of their earlier marks. Please write to us in case you have a different background or are uncertain about your eligibility for any reason.
Four semesters, extendable up to six semesters.
The total requirement is 64 credits - 16 courses of 4 credits each, over 4 semesters.
The compulsory courses are Analysis I and II, Algebra, Linear Algebra, Probability & Statistics, Numerical Analysis, Complex Analysis, Differential Equations.
Electives are available in a wide range of topics reflecting the faculty members' specializations.
All students of M.Sc. Mathematics receive financial aid in the form of a teaching assistantship. Continuation of the assistantship is contingent on satisfactory performance in the program evaluated continuously, and compliance with all University regulations. Further, it is only offered for the regular duration of the M.Sc. program (i.e. four semesters).
A Master’s Degree in Mathematics or related disciplines with overall marks of at least 60% (or equivalent grade). Please enquire in case you are uncertain about your eligibility for any reason. Candidates who have qualified for CSIR-UGC NET-JRF, GATE-JRF, JEST or NBHM Fellowship are preferred.
The regular duration is eight semesters. However, students are allowed to graduate in as early as six and as late as ten semesters.
To earn a Ph.D. degree the candidate must:
The student must register for the following, in consultation with the department's Graduate Advisor:
