WEB PAGES FOR PH.D. QUALIFYING EXAMS
Dave L. Renfro
to Ph.D. qualifying exam questions. Since the semester just ended
for me, I decided to spend a few hours today making a list of
every U.S. university whose mathematics department has practice
and/or old Ph.D. qualifying exam questions on the internet.
To ensure completeness I looked at every Group I, II, and III
mathematics department's homepage (see [2]). [Actually, I've been
wanting to do this for quite a while--at least for real analysis
qualifying exam links.]
Because this collection is likely to prove very useful to a lot
of people--students preparing for these exams as well as faculty
who have to make out future exams--I'm posting this in sci.math,
sci.math.research, and alt.math.undergrad.
I would appreciate additions to this list e-mailed to me. Besides
the possibility that I might have missed a math department's
link to old Ph.D. qualifying exams, I'm sure that new ones will
be appearing from time to time. Also, I didn't look at ANY
mathematics departments outside the U.S.
[1]
<http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/sci.math.research/whermdwexquan>
[2] AMS-IMS-MAA Annual Survey Groupings of Departments:
<http://www.ams.org/employment/groups_des.html>
Dave L. Renfro
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WEB PAGES FOR PH.D. QUALIFYING EXAMS
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| Alabama |
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University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa: SAMPLE QUALIFYING EXAMS
<http://www.math.ua.edu/qualexam.htm>
University of South Alabama: Comprehensive Exam Archive
<http://www.mathstat.usouthal.edu/comprehensive-exams/comprehensives.html>
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| CALIFORNIA |
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University of California (Berkeley): Preliminary Exams
<http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~desouza/pb.html>
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.).]
<http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~dannyc/qualfolder/qualindex.html>
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| COLORADO |
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University of Colorado at Denver: Ph.D. Prelim Exams
<http://www-math.cudenver.edu/graduate/prelims/>
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| FLORIDA |
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Florida State University: Old Graduate Mathematics Exams
<http://euclid.math.fsu.edu/~smith/OldPrelims.html>
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| ILLINOIS |
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Northwestern University: Preliminary Examinations
<http://www.math.nwu.edu/graduate/prelims/>
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Study Guides for Comps
<http://www.math.uiuc.edu/GraduateProgram/Study/study.html>
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| INDIANA |
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Indiana University: Tier I Examinations
<http://www.math.indiana.edu/programs/graduate/tiers/>
Purdue University: Qualifying Exams [January 1994 to January 2000]
<http://www.math.purdue.edu/academics/oldExams/index.html>
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| LOUISIANA |
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Louisiana State University: Comprehensive Examination
<http://www.math.lsu.edu/grad/gradexams.html>
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| MARYLAND |
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Johns Hopkins University: Qualifying exams
<http://mathnt.mat.jhu.edu/exams/exams.htm>
University of Maryland, College Park: Recent Discussions in
GradForum [Several of the discussions involve issues related to
Ph.D. qualifying exams.]
<http://www.math.umd.edu/grad/wmg/gradforum.html>
University of Maryland, Baltimore County: Past Comprehensive
Examinations
<http://www.math.umbc.edu/GradProg/CompExams/index.shtml>
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| MASSACHUSETTS |
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Boston University: Sample M.A. Preliminary Exam
<http://math.bu.edu/grad/admissions/admissions.html#PHD-Requirements>
Harvard University: Qualifying Exams
<http://www.math.harvard.edu/>
Northeastern University: Qualifying Exams in Mathematics
<http://www.math.neu.edu/~suciu/qualifyings.html>
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| Missouri |
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University of Missouri at Columbia: Graduate Qualifying Exams
<http://math.missouri.edu/curr/grad/quals/index.html>
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| NEBRASKA |
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Recent Qualifying Exams
<http://www.math.unl.edu/Dept/Info/Grad/GradExams/>
University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Recent Ph.D. Comprehensive Exams
<http://www.math.unl.edu/Dept/Info/Grad/PhDComps/>
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| NEW HAMPSHIRE |
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Dartmouth College: Syllabi and Sample Questions for Graduate
Qualifying Exams
<http://math.dartmouth.edu/graduate-students/syllabi/>
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| NEW JERSEY |
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New Jersey Institute of Technology: Qualifying Examination Subjects
<http://cams.njit.edu/~instruct/Qual/subjects.html#A>
Princeton University: Graduate Students' Guide to Generals
<http://www.princeton.edu/~missouri/Generals/generals/>
Rutgers University-New Brunswick: Written Qualifying Exams
<http://www.math.rutgers.edu/grad/quals.html>
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| NEW YORK |
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Columbia University: Qualifying Exams
<http://www.math.columbia.edu/department/qualifiers/>
Rensselaer Polytechic Institute [See under Preliminary Exam: Copies
of previous exams can be obtained by clicking here"]
<http://eaton.math.rpi.edu/Graduate/phd.html#pe>
SUNY-Albany: Archive of some past Ph.D. preliminary examinations
<http://math.albany.edu:8000/math/prelims/>
University of Rochester [See under Graduation requirements:
"... PostScript copies of the written preliminary exams ..."]
<http://www.math.rochester.edu/programs/gradprg/>
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| OHIO |
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Ohio State University: Practice Qualifying Exams
<http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/Graduate/qualifying/>
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| OKLAHOMA |
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Oklahoma State University: Masters and Doctoral Exams
<http://www.math.okstate.edu/~graddir/oldexams/exam.html>
University of Oklahoma: Math Qualifying Exam Archive
<http://www.math.ou.edu/grad/qualexam.htm>
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| PENNSYLVANIA |
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Pennsylvania State University: Qualifying Exams
<http://www.math.psu.edu/grad/qualifie/QUALIF.html>
Temple University: Recent Qualifying Exams [At the link provided,
select (to the left) "Graduate Program", followed by (to the right)
"The Written Comprehensive Exams".]
<http://www.math.temple.edu/>
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| TEXAS |
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Texas A & M University [At the link provided, select (to the left)
"Program Information", followed by (to the right) "6. Ph.D. Degree".]
<http://www.math.tamu.edu/teaching/graduate/>
University of Texas: A sampling of previous preliminary exams
<http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/combs/Prelims-Old/>
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| WASHINGTON, DC |
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Howard University: Senior Comprehensive Examination [undergraduate]
<http://138.238.61.55/~reb/mstdnts.htm>
Dave L. Renfro
for Ph.D. qualifying exam problems. Many of these problem
sites also have solutions provided.
sci.math (May 13, 2000)
<http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/sci.math/howousway>
sci.math.research (May 13, 2000)
<http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/sci.math.research/mermswaplou>
alt.math.undergrad (May 13, 2000)
<http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/alt.math.undergrad/plulviglee>
This is a slightly expanded version of that list. At the
beginning I've listed those items which are new to this version.
The complete list, incorporating these additions, follows after
this list of additions.
I am grateful to those people who gave me the information for
this update. Additionally, I would appreciate additions to this
list e-mailed to me for later versions.
Dave L. Renfro
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THE FOLLOWING ARE NEW:
University of Maryland, College Park: (first link) Archive of Past
Written Exams in Mathematics; (second link) Recent Discussions in
GradForum [Several of the discussions involve issues related to
Ph.D. qualifying exams.]
<http://www.math.umd.edu/grad/qualtests/index.html>
<http://www.math.umd.edu/grad/wmg/gradforum.html>
University of Buffalo: First Qual Files
<http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~kuppum/fqual/index.html>
University of South Carolina: [See the link "The linear
algebra questions from the admission to candidacy exams
for the last 15 years."]
<http://www.math.sc.edu/~howard/Classes/700b/>
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WEB PAGES FOR PH.D. QUALIFYING EXAMS
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| Alabama |
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| CALIFORNIA |
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| COLORADO |
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| FLORIDA |
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| ILLINOIS |
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| INDIANA |
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| LOUISIANA |
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| MARYLAND |
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University of Maryland, College Park: (first link) Archive of Past
Written Exams in Mathematics; (second link) Recent Discussions in
GradForum [Several of the discussions involve issues related to
Ph.D. qualifying exams.]
<http://www.math.umd.edu/grad/qualtests/index.html>
<http://www.math.umd.edu/grad/wmg/gradforum.html>
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| MASSACHUSETTS |
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| Missouri |
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| NEBRASKA |
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| NEW HAMPSHIRE |
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| NEW JERSEY |
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| NEW YORK |
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University of Buffalo: First Qual Files
<http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~kuppum/fqual/index.html>
University of Rochester [See under Graduation requirements:
"... PostScript copies of the written preliminary exams ..."]
<http://www.math.rochester.edu/programs/gradprg/>
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| OHIO |
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Ohio State University: Practice Qualifying Exams
<http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/Graduate/qualifying/>
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| OKLAHOMA |
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Oklahoma State University: Masters and Doctoral Exams
<http://www.math.okstate.edu/~graddir/oldexams/exam.html>
University of Oklahoma: Math Qualifying Exam Archive
<http://www.math.ou.edu/grad/qualexam.htm>
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| PENNSYLVANIA |
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Pennsylvania State University: Qualifying Exams
<http://www.math.psu.edu/grad/qualifie/QUALIF.html>
Temple University: Recent Qualifying Exams
<http://www.math.temple.edu/grad/exams.html>
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| SOUTH CAROLINA |
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University of South Carolina: [See the link "The linear
algebra questions from the admission to candidacy exams
for the last 15 years."]
<http://www.math.sc.edu/~howard/Classes/700b/>