Prospective Graduate Students

Our department is home to a lively graduate community. Graduate work in CAAM involves intensive course study in small classes, close interaction with professors, immediate opportunities to participate in seminars and to engage in research projects. We have weekly colloquia featuring experts from leading universities and research laboratories who describe their recent work in critical research areas. We also have a weekly lunch-time seminar for student presentations.

CAAM Events

The CAAM Department offers a very rich research environment to the graduate students. In particular there are several weekly events that allow students opportunities to participate with others in the applied mathematics field.

• Graduate Seminars: every Wednesday
• Colloquium: every Monday
• SIAM Student Chapter Meetings
• AWM Student Chapter
• VIGRE Research Seminars

CAAM graduate students also have the unique opportunity to participate in many outreach activities involving high school students from Houston, or undergraduates students from various universities. Some of these activities are: WRAP, AGEP, Summer Math Days.

Application Process:

An application for graduate study should include the completed application form, application fees, transcript(s), and recommendations.

To make sure scores are available when admission decisions are normally made, applicants should take the GRE by the December before the fall for which they are applying.

Admission depends on students' previous academic records, available test scores, and letters of references from scholars under whom they have studied.

The admissions deadline for the Fall 2013 semester is January 15. Late applications will be accepted until February 28, 2013. Candidates who miss the January 15 deadline place themselves in a less competitive position.

Visiting Post Baccalaureate (VPB) Applicants:

VPB students are non-degree seeking students. Courses are taken for credit without the student being admitted to a degree program. Attending Rice University as a VPB student is not a means of entering a degree program.

VPB applicants should fill out an application through the office of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies at:
http://graduate.rice.edu/vpb/.

Applying to Rice Online:

To be considered for one of the above programs, you must submit ALL materials online by the posted deadline.

Please read the "Directions and Information" section completely before you begin. Once the form is submitted with payment, no changes can be made to your application.

Apply On-Line.

Please do not mail duplicate materials to the department as this may slow down the processing of your application.

Application Requirements:

Application Fee	$85 payable online using a major credit card.
Letters of Recommendations	3 (preferably 4) letters of recommendations are required. The online application system will require you to submit letter writer names and email addresses. The system will then send an email to each of your letter writers with a secure link to the online sytem, allowing them to submit letters on your behalf.
Official Transcripts	Transcript(s) from institution(s) attended sent directly from the University. Only one copy from each institution attended is required. If more than one University was attended, please send the transcripts together.
GRE	GRE scores sent electronically from the ETS (Institution Code 6609, Department Code 0702). Tests should be taken by the December before the fall semester for which you are applying.
TOEFL (if applicable)	TOEFL scores sent electronically from the ETS (Institution Code 6609, Department Code 54). Tests should be taken by the December before the fall semester for which you are applying.

Mailing Address:

Graduate Coordinator
Computational and Applied Mathematics - MS 134
Rice University
PO Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251-1892
USA

Physical Delivery Address:

Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics (CAAM)
Rice University
6100 Main St. - MS 134
Houston, TX 77005-1892
USA
ATTN: Graduate Coordinator

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