Mathematics

Overview

About the Undergraduate Program

The Mathematics program of Rutgers University offers a broad variety of courses serving the needs of students in all majors, with courses designed for all students of liberal arts, as well as more technical majors ranging from accounting and pharmacy through the mathematical sciences and Mathematics (pure or applied) itself.

For Liberal Arts students we offer a course in which mathematical ideas, many of them quite recently developed, are applied to matters of general concern such as issues of apportionment in politics, or (for the more artistically inclined) the nature of symmetry.

Many students in more technical majors, from Pharmacy and Business to Physics, take one of the two flavors of our calculus sequences, either the more specialized—and more extensive—sequence beginning with 151 for those in the mathematical sciences, or the sequence beginning with 135 for the less mathematically intensive majors.

For mathematics majors and minors, we offer a program designed to cultivate both technical skills and a conceptual grasp of the underlying theory. In addition to the basic requirements, mathematics majors and minors can choose from a wide array of course electives and specialized options. Students in combined 5-year programs may also earn a Masters Degree with one additional year of study. Interdisciplinary programs (Stat/Math and Biomath) are also offered.