If a department offers an exam, students should take the written exam; if the department does not offer an exam, or if the exam is not an appropriate option for AMSC students, students would take coursework instead to fulfill the application area qualifying exam requirement. The requirement for each area is marked below; for example, for BMGT or Economics, students should take the written exam. In the case that coursework can be counted as the exam requirement, the student must obtain an overall GPA of at least 3.5.

Students are strongly encouraged to submit a Study Advisory Plan to ensure their qualifying exam requirement in the application area is met.

When coursework is used to meet a qualifying exam requirement, the student must submit the Course Evaluation Form.

 

Department of Aerospace Engineering

2 courses/6 credits must be taken from any of the core courses in the following concentrations listed below:

Department of Astronomy 

2 courses/6 credits must be taken from the core courses listed below:

Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Science

2 courses/6 credits must be taken from the 6 AOSC core courses listed below:

Department of Biology

2 courses/6 credits must be taken from the core courses in the following concentrations listed below. In the case that 2 courses are only equivalent to 4 credits, the student must take 3 courses to equal 6 credits.

College of Business and Management

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

2 courses/6 credits must be taken from the core courses listed below:

Department of Civil and Enviormental Engineering

2 courses/6 credits must be taken from the core courses in the following concentrations listed below:

Department of Computer Science

2 courses/6 credits must be taken from the core courses in the following concentrations listed below. If a CMSC topics course meets qualifying exam requirements for Computer Science PhD students, you may also use them to meet an AMSC application area qual requirement: https://www.cs.umd.edu/grad/coursework#specialtopics

Department of Economics

Department of Electrical Engineering

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

2 courses/6 credits must be taken from the core courses listed below:

Department of Linguistics 

One course sequence (2 core courses/6 credits) must be taken from the following list:

Department of Mechanical Engineering

2 courses/6 credits must be taken from the core courses listed below:

Department of Physics