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New Science Master's Education Book
The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) has published a broad and comprehensive guide to best practices, activities and processes required to create a professional master’s program which draws on the experiences of participants in the CGS Professional Master’s Initiative. This book provides essential advice for graduate deans, universities and faculty on the development of collaborative degrees as well as interaction with business, industry and government to devise programs that respond to regional employer needs. The book is available from CGS by clicking here.
Updated Science Master's Education Tables and Graphs Now Available
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Report Outlines Differences Between Traditional and Professional Master's Programs
A report published by the American Institute of Physics entitled "Programs that Match Every Interest - Master’s Degrees in Physics" updates the discussion about differences between professional masters programs and traditional academic masters programs. Read the entire article here.
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Featured Master's Program
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University of Alabama
Mathematics
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487
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Category:
Mathematics/Statistics
Contact:
Dr. Martin Evans
Graduate Program Director
Mathematics
345 Gordon Palmer Hall
Phone: 205-348-5301
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Master's Program Web Site:
Mathematics
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Program Description
The department offers programs leading to the master of arts and the doctor of philosophy degrees. The department offers courses in the following areas: algebra, analysis, topology, differential equations, mathematical methods for engineering, numerical analysis, mathematical statistics, fluid dynamics, and optimization theory. Candidates for the Master's degree may choose either of two plans. One plan (Plan I) requires suscessful completion of 24 semester hours of course work, plus a thesis. The other plan (Plan II) requires no thesis, but requires sucessful completion of 27 semester hours of course work plus 3 semester hours of work devoted to a project supervised by a member of the graduate faculty in Mathematics.

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