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Applied Mathematics, PhD

USA

What will I learn?

Are you passionate about making a difference in the world of climate or environmental issues? Or advancing the fight against cancer or infectious diseases? You can apply your enhanced mathematics expertise to devising solutions to these types of real-world problems.

Degree Awarded: PHD

Applied Mathematics

This PhD program in applied mathematics is intended for students with superior computational and mathematical modeling ability. It emphasizes a solid mathematical foundation and promotes creative scholarship in an application discipline. The School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Arizona State University has faculty in applied mathematics with outstanding transdisciplinary research programs with strong external funding. Current research interests include mathematical epidemiology and mathematical ecology, mathematical neuroscience, environmental fluid dynamics and high performance computing, imaging and inverse problems, supply chain dynamics, control and optimization, computational methods for ordinary and partial differential equations, analysis of differential equations, and geophysical and environmental fluid dynamics.

Which department am I in?

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Study options

Full Time (84 credit hours)

Tuition fees
US$26,640.00 per year
Start date

September 2025

Venue

Arizona State University

Tempe Campus,

1151 S. Forest Ave.,

TEMPE,

Arizona,

85281, United States

Entry requirements

For international students

To be admitted to ASU, you must have earned a bachelor’s degree or higher from a regionally accredited institution in the U.S. or the equivalent of a U.S. bachelor’s degree from an international institution that is officially recognized by that country.

Competitive applicants typically have a “B” (3.00 on a 4.00 scale) grade point average in the last 60 semester hours or 90 quarter hours of undergraduate coursework. If you do not meet the minimum GPA requirements, your application may still be considered by the department.

English language proficiency requirements

Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL): Score of at least 80 on the TOEFL iBT

International English Language Testing System (IELTS): Overall band score of the academic test of at least 6.5

Pearson Test of English (PTE): Score of at least 60

Duolingo English test: Graduate minimum score of 105

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