Graduate Programs with Financial Support for MA/MS Students

This is a (highly non-exhaustive, and lightly maintained) list of institutions that offer financial support to MA/MS students in math, applied math or statistics. This is for information only; no endorsement of any programs is implied. Much of the information on this page may be out of date, particularly in the COVID-19 era, so please contact individual departments for more information. E-mail Jeremy Martin (address at bottom of page) with any additions, updates or corrections.

• Pittsburg State University (Pittsburg, KS)
• Emporia State University (Emporia, KS)
• Villanova offers two forms of assistance for Master's students. One is a tuition waiver with no stipend for 7 hours/week of work. One is a tuition-waiver with stipend (about $1600/mo) for 15 hours/week of work. Master's degrees are offered in Mathematics and Applied Statistics.
• Boise State University offers an MS in Mathematics with emphases in Applied Mathematics, Pure Mathematics, and Statistics and an MS in Mathematics Education. Most students are supported by TAships.
• Southern Illinois University at Carbondale routinely funds MS students. According to a faculty member: "We also have a Ph.D. program, but we have quite a lot of students who only intend and only take the master's."
• Wake Forest has a master's only MA program in mathematics. A student can do a master's thesis on a statistics topic for this degree. Typical audience is drawn from both students wanting a terminal master's degree and students considering a PhD who feel rather unprepared. ~10 fully funded TA positions a year. Those not awarded a TA position don't have to pay undergrad tuition. Class sizes average 15/year.
• Clemson has a standalone MS program (along with a PhD program), and there is TA support for students in both programs.
• Northwest Missouri State University offers both an MS and an MSEd in Math (and Math Education).
• The University of Dayton offers three terminal Master's degrees in math, including one in applied math. (The others are MathEd and Financial Math.) Proximity to Wright Patterson AFB helps those students who are actually "living" applied math to study it. Contact Paul Eloe, Director of Graduate Studies.
• The University of Northern Iowa has a Professional Science Masters Degree in Industrial Mathematics:
• University of Michigan-Dearborn (applied)
• University of Texas at Arlington (applied)
• Southeast Louisana University (applied). Contact Dr. Ken Li (kli@selu.edu) about their ISAT Masters (Integrated Science and Technology.)
• Michigan State University: master's in industrial mathematics
• Miami University (Ohio) has master's programs and no Ph.D.
• Ball State University (Muncie, IN) funds master's programs in statistics and possibly math master's degrees as well.
• Georgia Southern University has masters-only programs in Applied Mathematics, Pure Mathematics, Statistics and Computational Science (interdisciplinary). They do have assistantships available.
• Sam Houston State has smaller but thriving MS programs in both math and statistics. About 20 new students each year, most of them funded at $13,000 per year (in exchange for 20 hours of light work per week). Tuition is low, as are living expenses in Huntsville.
• South Dakota State University has an MS program in Mathematics and an MS program in Statistics. These students are eligible for assistantships. Also has an MS in Data Science- these students usually are not eligible for assistantships.
• Western Michigan University supports some masters students with TAships. How many depends on the year, and students may have to pay part of their way until a TAship becomes available.
• University of Montana
• Bowling Green State University (Ohio): Master's program with concentrations in Pure Math, Scientific Computation, Statistics, Applied Statistics, and Teaching Mathematics: Almost all grad students are supported with TA positions.
• University of Florida (which has a PhD program): almost all grad students are supported with TA positions.
• University of Texas, El Paso offers MS-Math but not PhD in Math. There is a PhD in computational math (interdisciplinary with College of Engineering), but its students are not in competition with MS-Math students for TA-ship.
• Western Washington University offers a master's in math and funds many of their graduate students. They do not have a PhD program.
• University of Washington has a master's program in biostatistics. that offers funding. According to their website (5/21/18), "We offer funding to PhD students and partner with the UW to offer funding to highly qualified underrepresented minority MS students."
• Northern Arizona University supports about 30-35 graduate teaching assistants in our MS programs (closer to 40 this year). They offer MS degrees in Mathematics, Statistics, and Mathematics Education. Many graduates go on to PhD study.
• University of California, Riverside has an MA/MS program (in either pure or applied math), and accepted students are guaranteed 5 quarters of support in the form of TAships. (That is usually sufficient to finish the requirements.) Typically 1-3 masters students incoming each year.
• University of Minnesota Duluth offers a MS in Applied and Computational Mathematics with focus in modeling, statistics, or discrete math.
• San Francisco State University: masters-only program funded by TAships and scholarships. They regularly send students afterwards to PhD programs. They have several faculty doing geometry and combinatorics.
• The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign offers full financial support to students in the Masters in the Teaching of Mathematics program.
• University of Alaska Fairbanks: MS in Mathematics and MS in Statistics. TAships are available for both programs.
• University of Connecticut: same support for MA and PhD students.
• University of Georgia: the Department of Statistics supports both MS and PhD students. According to their Financial Assistance document (as of 5/21/18), "Financial assistance is usually granted to MS students for a period of 2 years."
• University of Kentucky: the Department of Statistics supports both MS and PhD students. According to their website (as of 5/21/18), "Supported students making normal progress toward their degree may expect to be supported 2 years for a Master's."
• Simon Fraser University (Canada) offers research M.Sc. degrees in Mathematics, Applied and Computational Mathematics and Operations Research that are funded through a mix of TA and RA support.

  General note on Canadian graduate programs (thanks to Tamon Stephen): In Canada the funding model encourages the production of research-based Master's degrees. So most good Canadian schools are possibilities if students are up for crossing the border. Support packages generally include money from teaching and research assistantships. Ideal candidates for this are people who may be interested in a Ph.D. but are also considering non-academic possibilities. Students will spend time alongside Ph.D. students, and Master's degrees leading to a nice industrial placement, or to continuing to a Ph.D. at the same institution or elsewhere are all considered good outcomes.

• University of Arizona: the Mathematics Department offers suopport to both MA/MS and PhD students (website last viewed 3/3/21).

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