- Location: Maynooth University, North Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland - Ireland
- Duration: 4 to 6 Years
Course details
The PhD (Science) is a research degree which usually takes four years to complete. A student must write a thesis under the direction of a member of staff containing a significant new result or an original insight. Collaborations with outside parties have involved work in Chemistry, Medicine, Archaeology, Banking, Computer-Aided Design, and other areas.
Entry Requirements
The minimum entry requirement is a 2.1 Honours Degree in Mathematics or Statistics. A First Class degree is highly desirable. Before a student can be accepted into the programme, they must find a member of staff who is willing to act as their supervisor. For a PhD degree, a good MSc degree is often desirable.
Applicants must have a recognized primary degree which is considered equivalent to Irish university primary degree level.
Minimum English language requirements:
- IELTS: 6.5 overall score
- TOEFL (Paper based test): 585
- TOEFL (Internet based test): 95
- PTE (Pearson): 62
Module
- SUMMER SCHOOL/CONFERENCE IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE
- ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY
- TOPICS IN ALGEBRA
- SEMINAR SERIES IN MATHEMATICS
- GERMAN FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE
- TEACHING SKILLS IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE
- PRESENTATION AT A SUMMER SCHOOL/CONFERENCE IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE
- TOPICS IN COMPLEX ANALYSIS
- FRENCH FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE
- TOPICS IN REAL ANALYSIS
- CAREER AND RESEARCH ADVANCEMENT PORTFOLIO
- ORAL PRESENTATION SKILLS IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE
- TECHNICAL PRESENTATION SKILLS IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE
- SMALL GROUP INTERACTIVE TEACHING SKILLS
- PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE IN POSTGRADUATE TEACHING & LEARNING : TUTORS & DEMONSTRATORS
- LINEAR MODELS 2 (R)
- DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF EXPERIMENTS
- STATISTICAL COMPUTING WITH R (R)
- STATISTICAL INFERENCE (R)
- LINEAR MODELS 1 (R)
- INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS (R)
- INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS (R)
- PROBABILITY (R)
- DATA ANALYSIS (R)
- CATEGORICAL DATA ANALYSIS (R)
- APPLIED PROBABILITY (R)
- RESEARCH PRACTICE AND INTEGRITY (OPEN TO STUDENTS WITHIN THE FACULTY OF SCIENCE & ENGINEERING ONLY)
Course Location
About Maynooth University
This means that students at Maynooth benefit from an international outlook, and those of you who wish to study abroad for a semester or an academic year during yTheir degree have a network of connections to tap in to. During the cTheirse of their academic degree students from Maynooth have studied subjects such as Law at Boston College, Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Music in the University of Vienna.
Maynooth has many shared research projects with universities around the world.
- In the Dept of Psychology, Prof Dermot Barnes-Holmes is working with academics in Columbia University in New York to predict the success of cocaine abuse treatment.
- Mathematician Dr. Ken Duffy is working with immunologists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in MelbTheirne, Australia to analyse cell behaviTheir in a study that could have significant implications for Their understanding and treatment of diseases like Coeliac disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.
- Historian Dr Tom O Connor is working with colleagues from the University of Alcala and the Irish Colleges in Spain, discovering the hidden stories of Irish people who got caught up in the Spanish Inquisition.
