WEB PAGES FOR PH.D. QUALIFYING EXAMS

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Dave L. Renfro

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Alabama

SAMPLE QUALIFYING EXAMS, University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa

University of South Alabama: Comprehensive Exam Archive

CALIFORNIA

University of California (Berkeley): Preliminary Exams

University of California (Berkeley): Questions from Past Qualifying Exams [Organized into approximately 30 subject areas (3-manifolds, 4-manifolds, knots; Fields and Galois Theory; Computation Complexity; etc.).]

COLORADO

University of Colorado at Denver: Ph.D. Prelim Exams

FLORIDA

Florida State University: Old Graduate Mathematics Exams

ILLINOIS

Northwestern University: Preliminary Examinations

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Study Guides for Comps

INDIANA

Indiana University: Tier I Examinations

Purdue University: Qualifying Exams [January 1994 to January 2000]

LOUISIANA

Louisiana State University: Comprehensive Examination

MARYLAND

Johns Hopkins University: Qualifying exams

University of Maryland, College Park: Archive of Past Written Exams in Mathematics;

Recent Discussions in GradForum at UMD [Several of the discussions involve issues related to Ph.D. qualifying exams.]

University of Maryland, Baltimore County: Past Comprehensive Examinations

MASSACHUSETTS

Boston University: Sample M.A. Preliminary Exam

Harvard University: Qualifying Exams

Northeastern University: Qualifying Exams in Mathematics

Missouri

University of Missouri at Columbia: Graduate Qualifying Exams

NEBRASKA

University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Recent Qualifying Exams

University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Recent Ph.D. Comprehensive Exams

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Dartmouth College: Syllabi and Sample Questions for Graduate Qualifying Exams

NEW JERSEY

New Jersey Institute of Technology: Qualifying Examination Subjects

Princeton University: Graduate Students' Guide to Generals

Rutgers University-New Brunswick: Written Qualifying Exams

NEW YORK

Columbia University: Qualifying Exams

Rensselaer Polytechic Institute [See under Preliminary Exam: Copies of previous exams can be obtained by clicking here"]

SUNY-Albany: Archive of some past Ph.D. preliminary examinations

SUNY-Buffalo: Archive of some past Ph.D. qualifier exams

University of Rochester [See under Graduation requirements: "... PostScript copies of the written preliminary exams ..."]

OHIO

Ohio State University: Practice Qualifying Exams

OKLAHOMA

Oklahoma State University: Masters and Doctoral Exams

University of Oklahoma: Math Qualifying Exam Archive

PENNSYLVANIA

Pennsylvania State University: Qualifying Exams

Temple University: Recent Qualifying Exams

SOUTH CAROLINA

University of South Carolina [See the link "The linear algebra questions from the admission to candidacy exams for the last 15 years."]

TEXAS

Texas A & M University [At the link provided, select (to the left) "Program Information", followed by (to the right) "6. Ph.D. Degree".]

University of Texas: A sampling of previous preliminary exams

WASHINGTON, DC

Howard University: Senior Comprehensive Examination [undergraduate]


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