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M.A. in Mathematics

Making the World Smarter, Safer and Healthier

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Eligible for

STEM-OPT
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Generous

STEM
Fellows Scholarship
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QS Rankings

#63
University in the U.S.
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Alumni Career Outcomes

95%
employed within 6 months
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In the M.A. in Mathematics, students gain a solid foundation in advanced mathematics and develop skills in mathematical modeling, numerical applications and data analysis in order to succeed in a variety of professions. A master's degree in mathematics opens many doors to jobs in finance, technology, biomedicine and data analysis, among others. The master’s program also provides an excellent foundation for our Ph.D. program.

Jobs in math occupations are expected to grow 27 percent through 2029, much faster than the average for all occupations, and will add about 56,100 jobs, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This growth is based on the expectation that businesses and government agencies will continue emphasizing the use of big data. Math salaries were on average $90,410 in 2019. Generous scholarships and financial aid are available for a limited time. Come to New York City to study and network with the best. 

Program Highlights

  • Gain a broader understanding of the mathematical fields, their interrelations and traditional applications
  • Learn how to formalize difficult real-world problems, identify the core challenges and select the appropriate tools of analysis, as well as how to communicate large amounts of information in a rigorous and concise fashion
  • Master skills and strategies in mathematical modeling, numerical applications and data analysis
  • Prepare for careers in industry, finance, engineering, business, medicine and academia
  • Gain industry experience through internships and research
  • Benefit from career support and professional networking opportunities
  • Build a foundation to keep yourself competitive in an ever-shifting job market
  • STEM-OPT eligible

Full Program Breakdown

In the M.A. in Mathematics, students gain a solid foundation in advanced mathematics and develop skills in mathematical modeling, numerical applications and data analysis in order to succeed in a variety of professions. A master's degree in mathematics opens many doors to jobs in finance, technology, biomedicine and data analysis, among others. The master’s program also provides an excellent foundation for our Ph.D. program.

Jobs in math occupations are expected to grow 27 percent through 2029, much faster than the average for all occupations, and will add about 56,100 jobs, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This growth is based on the expectation that businesses and government agencies will continue emphasizing the use of big data. Math salaries were on average $90,410 in 2019. Generous scholarships and financial aid are available for a limited time. Come to New York City to study and network with the best. 

Program Highlights

  • Gain a broader understanding of the mathematical fields, their interrelations and traditional applications
  • Learn how to formalize difficult real-world problems, identify the core challenges and select the appropriate tools of analysis, as well as how to communicate large amounts of information in a rigorous and concise fashion
  • Master skills and strategies in mathematical modeling, numerical applications and data analysis
  • Prepare for careers in industry, finance, engineering, business, medicine and academia
  • Gain industry experience through internships and research
  • Benefit from career support and professional networking opportunities
  • Build a foundation to keep yourself competitive in an ever-shifting job market
  • STEM-OPT eligible

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In the M.A. in Mathematics, students gain a solid foundation in advanced mathematics and develop skills in mathematical modeling, numerical applications and data analysis in order to succeed in a variety of professions. A master's degree in mathematics opens many doors to jobs in finance, technology, biomedicine and data analysis, among others. The master’s program also provides an excellent foundation for our Ph.D. program.

Jobs in math occupations are expected to grow 27 percent through 2029, much faster than the average for all occupations, and will add about 56,100 jobs, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This growth is based on the expectation that businesses and government agencies will continue emphasizing the use of big data. Math salaries were on average $90,410 in 2019. Generous scholarships and financial aid are available for a limited time. Come to New York City to study and network with the best. 

Program Highlights

  • Gain a broader understanding of the mathematical fields, their interrelations and traditional applications
  • Learn how to formalize difficult real-world problems, identify the core challenges and select the appropriate tools of analysis, as well as how to communicate large amounts of information in a rigorous and concise fashion
  • Master skills and strategies in mathematical modeling, numerical applications and data analysis
  • Prepare for careers in industry, finance, engineering, business, medicine and academia
  • Gain industry experience through internships and research
  • Benefit from career support and professional networking opportunities
  • Build a foundation to keep yourself competitive in an ever-shifting job market
  • STEM-OPT eligible

Research

Work with faculty on specialized and applied research projects.

Current Research Areas

  • Dynamics of systems with small degrees of freedom with emphasis on ergodicity, chaotic behavior, statistical properties
  • Dynamics of systems with large and infinite degrees of freedom with emphasis on statistical and thermodynamical properties
  • Dynamics of celestial bodies, financial markets, and climate
  • Applied noncommutative geometry and materials science
  • Applied operator algebras and dynamical systems
  • Differential geometry and partial differential equations
  • Topological data analysis
  • Quantum algorithms for quantum computers

Math Fellows

Join students and alumni from over 30 countries to work on pioneering research, citywide initiatives and new technologies that help to make the world smarter, safer and healthier.

Benefits

Learn more about the Fellows Program.

B.A./M.A. Pathways Option

YU undergraduates can take up to 12 graduate credits that count toward both the bachelor’s and master’s degrees. After completing the bachelor’s, students can finish the M.A. in Mathematics in just one more year.   

  • Admissions criteria: Junior in any undergraduate major with a minimum GPA of 3.2 and a minimum grade of B-plus in the prerequisite courses listed below. Students can begin taking graduate courses in their junior or senior year.  
  • Prerequisites for graduate coursework: Calculus I and II, Multivariable Calculus and Linear Algebra – all with a minimum grade of B-plus. 

Learn more at www.yu.edu/pathways.

Internships and STEM-OPT 

Gain industry experience in major companies, startups and the YU Innovation Lab through internships in the financial capital of the world -- New York -- that count toward your degree. Read more on the curriculum page or speak with an adviser.

Yeshiva University's master’s in mathematics is a STEM-approved degree. International students may be eligible for up to 36 months of Optional Practical Training (OPT). The program also offers several opportunities for Curricular Practical Training (CPT). 

Interested in this program? Apply Now!

At a Glance

30-credit Master of Arts

Full-time or part-time

On campus in New York City

Evening courses so that you can work full-time while completing your degree

Leading industry expert faculty

Small classes where you’ll get the attention you deserve

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Jared Hakimi 
Director of Graduate Admissions
jared.hakimi@yu.edu
646-592-4722
Schedule an Appointment 

Shayna Matzner
Assistant Director of Graduate Admissions
shayna.matzner@yu.edu
646-592-4726
Schedule an Appointment

Xavier Velasquez
Assistant Director of Graduate Admissions
xavier.velasquez@yu.edu
646-592-4737
Schedule an Appointment

Knowledge Requirements

Candidates must possess a bachelor's from an accredited college or university as well as the following pre-requisite courses with a grade of B+ or better:

  • Calculus I and II
  • Multivariable Calculus
  • Linear Algebra

Application Information 

Visit Graduate Admissions for up-to-date application requirements and deadlines. 

Questions? Schedule an appointment with an admissions director if you have questions about your qualifications, financial aid opportunities and financing your graduate degree. We can do a preliminary transcript review and discuss your admissions and financing options with the Katz School. 

Tuition, Financial Aid and Scholarships 

The Office of Student Finance maintains current tuition and fees for all graduate programs.  

All applicants are automatically considered for the STEM Fellows program. You do not need to submit any additional information. 

Learn More

Helpful Links

Webinars

Join Our Community

Contact Us

Jared Hakimi 
Director of Graduate Admissions
jared.hakimi@yu.edu
646-592-4722
Schedule an Appointment 

Shayna Matzner
Assistant Director of Graduate Admissions
shayna.matzner@yu.edu
646-592-4726
Schedule an Appointment

Xavier Velasquez
Assistant Director of Graduate Admissions
xavier.velasquez@yu.edu
646-592-4737
Schedule an Appointment

Admissions & Financial Aid

Knowledge Requirements

Candidates must possess a bachelor's from an accredited college or university as well as the following pre-requisite courses with a grade of B+ or better:

  • Calculus I and II
  • Multivariable Calculus
  • Linear Algebra

Application Information 

Visit Graduate Admissions for up-to-date application requirements and deadlines. 

Questions? Schedule an appointment with an admissions director if you have questions about your qualifications, financial aid opportunities and financing your graduate degree. We can do a preliminary transcript review and discuss your admissions and financing options with the Katz School. 

Tuition, Financial Aid and Scholarships 

The Office of Student Finance maintains current tuition and fees for all graduate programs.  

All applicants are automatically considered for the STEM Fellows program. You do not need to submit any additional information. 

Program News

Welcome to Mathematics at Yeshiva University

M.A. and Ph.D. programs on-campus in New York City

Welcome to Mathematics at Yeshiva University

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NSF Grant Funds Study of Energy Harvesting Devices

Read more about Dr. Marian Gidea's work

NSF Grant Funds Study of Energy Harvesting Devices

The research, “Energy Growth, Dissipation, and Control in Hamiltonian Systems,” is supported by a three-year $300,000 National Science Foundation grant, which was awarded in July to investigate dynamical systems, including applications to energy harvesting, celestial mechanics and space mission design. 

Read the story in the Katz School blog.

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Alumna's Study: Heavier Dialysis Patients at Risk

Read about Ariella Mermelstein's research

Alumna's Study: Heavier Dialysis Patients at Risk

An epidemiological study of dialysis patients conducted at the Renal Research Institute with the Katz School of Science and Health found that current recommendations for ultrafiltration in hemodialysis therapy may put heavier patients at greater risk of death.

In their research article in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Ariella Mermelstein, a 2021 graduate of the M.A. in Mathematics and Jochen Raimann, an adjunct professor in the M.S. in Biotechnology Management and Entrepreneurship, reported that the currently recommended threshold of 13 milliliters per hour per kilogram of body weight as the maximal ultrafiltration rate in hemodialysis therapy may put heavier patients at risk.

Read the story in the Katz School blog.

 

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Student Modeling Unusual Kind of Natural Energy

Read more about Samuel Akingbade

Student Modeling Unusual Kind of Natural Energy

With the help of an NSF grant, Katz School mathematics Ph.D. candidate Samuel Akingbade is researching the mathematical possibility of continuously capturing energy derived from small amounts of vibration in human and natural activity.

Energy harvesting devices, which consist of systems of oscillating beams in, for example, skyscrapers, trains and bridges, are made up of piezoelectric materials, which produce an electric charge under mechanical stress.

Akingbade is creating a mathematical model that will try to determine the right amount of outside force on these beams that would overcome the effects of internal friction, which stops the beams from vibrating.

Read the entire story in the Katz blog.

asteroids

NSF Study Measures Gravity on Asteroids

Read more about the recent paper

NSF Study Measures Gravity on Asteroids

Three Katz School mathematics and physics researchers have developed a theoretical framework for predicting the possible shapes and gravitational fields of asteroids.

The results, published in the international journal Astrophysics and Space Science in March, can be useful for spacecraft engineers developing landing designs for irregularly shaped celestial objects. The research was funded by a $412,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

“One of the paper’s central challenges was to find mathematical expressions for representing gravity on the surface of an irregularly shaped asteroid, understanding that, unlike on Earth, gravity on these objects isn’t constant,” said Dr. Fredy Zypman, a professor of physics and co-author of the paper “Surface Gravity of Rotating Dumbbell Shapes” with Dr. Marian Gidea, professor and chair of the M.S. and Ph.D. mathematics programs, and Dr. Wai-Ting Lam, a doctoral alum in mathematics and now a member of the faculty at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women.

Asteroids in the solar system can take on a variety of shapes. They are of particular interest to scientists and explorers because they’re rich in minerals. “The exploration of the irregular gravity fields is compelling,” said Dr. Lam. “In particular, dumbbell shapes are among those that have been observed for comets and asteroids.”

The Katz School researchers focused on dumbbell-shaped, or peanut-shaped, asteroids whose gravitational fields can vary widely on their surfaces because their mass is unevenly distributed, as opposed to Earth, a nearly rounded object that produces a relatively constant gravitational field.

“Dumbbells are among the shapes that have been observed for comets and asteroids, making them both astronomically and mathematically interesting,” said Dr. Gidea. “Because the gravitational field of an asteroid is complicated, more irregular, spacecrafts have to be very careful on their approach.”

Examples of oddly shaped asteroids include Hektor, the largest Jupiter Trojan asteroid that has its own moon; the Comet Hartley 2, which was the target of a flyby in 2010 by NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft; and the trans-Neptunian Arrokoth, or Ultima Thule, located in the Kuiper Belt, which was the target of the New Horizons space probe’s flyby in 2019.

“In addition to the general results for gravity on peanut-shaped objects, we also created a model for the shape of Hektor that can be described by simple equations. This formula gives us a possible family of shapes for this type of asteroid,” said Dr. Gidea. “The peanut-shaped asteroids aren’t all identical. We had to figure out how many exist and the family of shapes, and then we figured out the gravity at any point in the vicinity of these shapes.”

Dr. Zypman said the researchers also studied how the shape of an asteroid changes depending on its rotation. “This knowledge is relevant for understanding how the asteroid formed initially, when the object was still malleable and approaching its current shape.”

Welcome to Mathematics at Yeshiva University

M.A. and Ph.D. programs on-campus in New York City

Welcome to Mathematics at Yeshiva University

""

NSF Grant Funds Study of Energy Harvesting Devices

Read more about Dr. Marian Gidea's work

NSF Grant Funds Study of Energy Harvesting Devices

The research, “Energy Growth, Dissipation, and Control in Hamiltonian Systems,” is supported by a three-year $300,000 National Science Foundation grant, which was awarded in July to investigate dynamical systems, including applications to energy harvesting, celestial mechanics and space mission design. 

Read the story in the Katz School blog.

""

Alumna's Study: Heavier Dialysis Patients at Risk

Read about Ariella Mermelstein's research

Alumna's Study: Heavier Dialysis Patients at Risk

An epidemiological study of dialysis patients conducted at the Renal Research Institute with the Katz School of Science and Health found that current recommendations for ultrafiltration in hemodialysis therapy may put heavier patients at greater risk of death.

In their research article in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Ariella Mermelstein, a 2021 graduate of the M.A. in Mathematics and Jochen Raimann, an adjunct professor in the M.S. in Biotechnology Management and Entrepreneurship, reported that the currently recommended threshold of 13 milliliters per hour per kilogram of body weight as the maximal ultrafiltration rate in hemodialysis therapy may put heavier patients at risk.

Read the story in the Katz School blog.

 

""

Student Modeling Unusual Kind of Natural Energy

Read more about Samuel Akingbade

Student Modeling Unusual Kind of Natural Energy

With the help of an NSF grant, Katz School mathematics Ph.D. candidate Samuel Akingbade is researching the mathematical possibility of continuously capturing energy derived from small amounts of vibration in human and natural activity.

Energy harvesting devices, which consist of systems of oscillating beams in, for example, skyscrapers, trains and bridges, are made up of piezoelectric materials, which produce an electric charge under mechanical stress.

Akingbade is creating a mathematical model that will try to determine the right amount of outside force on these beams that would overcome the effects of internal friction, which stops the beams from vibrating.

Read the entire story in the Katz blog.

asteroids

NSF Study Measures Gravity on Asteroids

Read more about the recent paper

NSF Study Measures Gravity on Asteroids

Three Katz School mathematics and physics researchers have developed a theoretical framework for predicting the possible shapes and gravitational fields of asteroids.

The results, published in the international journal Astrophysics and Space Science in March, can be useful for spacecraft engineers developing landing designs for irregularly shaped celestial objects. The research was funded by a $412,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

“One of the paper’s central challenges was to find mathematical expressions for representing gravity on the surface of an irregularly shaped asteroid, understanding that, unlike on Earth, gravity on these objects isn’t constant,” said Dr. Fredy Zypman, a professor of physics and co-author of the paper “Surface Gravity of Rotating Dumbbell Shapes” with Dr. Marian Gidea, professor and chair of the M.S. and Ph.D. mathematics programs, and Dr. Wai-Ting Lam, a doctoral alum in mathematics and now a member of the faculty at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women.

Asteroids in the solar system can take on a variety of shapes. They are of particular interest to scientists and explorers because they’re rich in minerals. “The exploration of the irregular gravity fields is compelling,” said Dr. Lam. “In particular, dumbbell shapes are among those that have been observed for comets and asteroids.”

The Katz School researchers focused on dumbbell-shaped, or peanut-shaped, asteroids whose gravitational fields can vary widely on their surfaces because their mass is unevenly distributed, as opposed to Earth, a nearly rounded object that produces a relatively constant gravitational field.

“Dumbbells are among the shapes that have been observed for comets and asteroids, making them both astronomically and mathematically interesting,” said Dr. Gidea. “Because the gravitational field of an asteroid is complicated, more irregular, spacecrafts have to be very careful on their approach.”

Examples of oddly shaped asteroids include Hektor, the largest Jupiter Trojan asteroid that has its own moon; the Comet Hartley 2, which was the target of a flyby in 2010 by NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft; and the trans-Neptunian Arrokoth, or Ultima Thule, located in the Kuiper Belt, which was the target of the New Horizons space probe’s flyby in 2019.

“In addition to the general results for gravity on peanut-shaped objects, we also created a model for the shape of Hektor that can be described by simple equations. This formula gives us a possible family of shapes for this type of asteroid,” said Dr. Gidea. “The peanut-shaped asteroids aren’t all identical. We had to figure out how many exist and the family of shapes, and then we figured out the gravity at any point in the vicinity of these shapes.”

Dr. Zypman said the researchers also studied how the shape of an asteroid changes depending on its rotation. “This knowledge is relevant for understanding how the asteroid formed initially, when the object was still malleable and approaching its current shape.”

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