College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Mathematical Sciences
www.kent.edu/math


About This Program

The Ph.D. degree in Pure Mathematics is for students interested in becoming professional scholars, college and university teachers or independent workers in private, industrial or government research institutions. Kent State's pure mathematics Ph.D. program is one of six in the state public university system, and one of only two in Northeast Ohio. In broad terms, the faculty areas of research lie in functional analysis and operator theory, Lie representation theory, approximation theory, finite groups, character theory, number theory, large scale systems of equations, numerical and scientific computation and probability and stochastic processes.

Contact Information

Program Delivery

  • Delivery:
    • In person
  • Location:
    • Kent Campus

Examples of Possible Careers and Salaries*

Data scientists and mathematical science occupations, all other

  • 30.9% much faster than the average
  • 33,200 number of jobs
  • $98,230 potential earnings

Mathematical science teachers, postsecondary

  • 1.3% slower than the average
  • 60,100 number of jobs
  • $73,650 potential earnings

Mathematicians

  • 3.0% about as fast as the average
  • 2,900 number of jobs
  • $110,860 potential earnings

Natural sciences managers

  • 4.8% about as fast as the average
  • 71,400 number of jobs
  • $137,940 potential earnings

Secondary school teachers, except special and career/technical education

  • 3.8% about as fast as the average
  • 1,050,800 number of jobs
  • $62,870 potential earnings

Statisticians

  • 34.6% much faster than the average
  • 42,700 number of jobs
  • $92,270 potential earnings

* Source of occupation titles and labor data comes from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook. Data comprises projected percent change in employment over the next 10 years; nation-wide employment numbers; and the yearly median wage at which half of the workers in the occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less.