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Ask HN: Top univ offering an online graduate degree in pure/abstract maths?
I have looking for online graduate course/degree in abtract/pure math. While it is relatively easy to find something in computer science and the applied mathetics, i am having trouble find something around the more abstract/pure subject (eg measure theory, abstract algebra etc...).
- matheist 11y ago(I have a PhD in pure math — specializing in differential geometry — from a top US university, graduated in the past few years.) I've never heard of an online graduate degree in pure math. If I were to discover that there were indeed such a thing, I'd predict that: * it is not in the US * or, it is a masters degree only * at a for-profit institution * and would have low-quality instruction. I'd count it much more likely that graduate-level courses exist online in a not-for-credit capacity. (In the usual places, eg MIT opencourseware)
- soulbadguy 11y agoWhy would be math online degree be neccessarly of low-quality instruction ? How is the job markets for math phd these days btw ?
- Colin_M 11y agoI'm currently taking all my classes online, but through a brick-and-mortar college (I live too far from campus to attend in person, at least for now), and my school doesn't offer anything above Calculus 2 online, with the justification that the material is too tough to learn without direct instruction. I have no idea how valid that justification is, but I imagine at least some other schools use a similar reasoning.