Computational Math Ph.D. Programs

The following is a list of some opportunities for doctoral study in computational mathematics. It is intended as a guide for undergraduates interested in this area. Any omissions will be happily corrected (please let me know).

Institutions are listed alphabetically by school name, with ones outside the U.S. listed after all of the domestic programs.



Arizona State University computational mathematics group


Caltech Applied & Computational Mathematics
Colorado State University Computational Mathematics
Columbia University Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Florida State University Department of Scientific Computing
Florida State University Department of Mathematics, Applied and Computational Mathematics Degree Requirements
Johns Hopkins University Applied and Computational Mathematics
Kent State University Institute for Computational Mathematics
Penn State Center for Computational Mathematics and Applications (CCMA)


Princeton University Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Rice University Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics

"Applied analysis and computation are essential to research in virtually every field of science and engineering. Modern engineering is, to a large extent, computational engineering."


Southern Methodist University computational and applied mathematics
Tulane University Applied and Computational Mathematics
UCLA Computational & Applied Mathematics
University of California--San Diego The Center for Computational Mathematics (CCoM)
University of Chicago Computational Mathematics
University of Colorado Boulder Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Colorado Denver Center for Computational Mathematics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Scientific Computing Group,

"Scientific computing, also called numerical analysis or computational mathematics, is concerned with the ..."


University of Minnesota Graduate Program in Scientific Computation


University of Washington Applied Mathematics

"Applied and computational mathematics encompasses some of the most diverse ...."


Yale Computational Mathematics

Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Computational Mathematics,
KAUST Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Program
University of Waterloo Computational Mathematics program
See HPC University for additional listings.