Applying to Graduate School | University of Colorado Boulder
Apply to CU Boulder's Applied Mathematics PhD program. Review admissions requirements, deadlines, funding opportunities, and application instructions.
Admission into our graduate program is highly competitive. While there is no set of accomplishments that guarantees admission, here are several activities that historically have been viewed favorably by the admissions committee:
Take advanced applied mathematics courses (such as real analysis, partial differential equations, numerical analysis, etc), and earn A's.
Engage in a research experience
- Good: participate in research
- Better: participate in research that leads to co-authorship on a publication
- Best: participate in research for which you are the lead author on a publication
Do your homework with regard to understanding our graduate program. In your personal statement, be sure to address why you want to join our department.
Actively engage with research faculty at your institution to the extent that if they were to write your letter of recommendation, they could speak concretely about your mathematical skills and promise.