Department of Mathematics and Statistics

The Washington area is home to a number of excellent academic institutions. Georgetown students may enroll in classes at these universities through the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area. Tuition is billed at the Georgetown University rate. Effective fall 2009, no more than three courses altogether may be taken through the Consortium or transferred.  If you take a graduate course at an area institution without going through the Consortium process (e.g. because you are a Virginia resident and can take courses at George Mason University at the in-state tuition rate), it will  have to be transferred.

Note that grades for Consortium courses are not counted when calculating the student's overall QPI.  Students must register for the course during regular registration at the beginning of the semester, not during preregistration. For details of this process, please consult the Consortium's webpage and the Graduate Bulletin.

Below is a list of departments and programs, together with a list of courses that students may consider in order to satisfy some of our program requirements.  Whether a specific course satisfies a degree requirement or not depends on that course's content as well as on previous courses taken.  Please do not assume that a course will count automatically towards a program requirement if it is listed here.

If you are interested in taking a consortium course to satisfy some requirement of the degree, please do the following:

• Talk to your advisor and discuss with him/her how this course will fit into your overall schedule. The course should not duplicate courses that you have already taken or plan to take here at Georgetown.
  
• Contact the Director of Graduate Studies to obtain his/her approval. An email with your request and a link to the course description is sufficient to initiate this process. 
• Contact the instructor of the course by email to find out about available seats, prerequisites and so on.
• When you have received the DGS's and the instructor's approval, read the Graduate School rules carefully and be prepared to register for that course during regular registration at the beginning of the semester.

Only programs in mathematics, statistics, operations research and related areas of the mathematical sciences are listed. There are programs in economics, engineering, finance, and the natural sciences at many of these institutions that offer courses which may count as non-math electives.

The course lists are representative and not necessarily exhaustive. Not all courses listed here are offered every semester. Students are encouraged to explore the course listings on their own.

American University

• Department of Mathematics: Math-501, Math-551, Stat-517, Stat-520, Stat-530, Stat-531, Stat-584, Stat-600, Stat-616

The Catholic University of America 

There are no graduate programs in mathematics or statistics at CUA. However, you may be able to find elective courses (math/stat and non-math) in some of the engineering departments and programs, for example in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and in Engineering Management.

George Mason University

• Department of Computational and Data Sciences:  CSI-615, CSI-685, CSI-700, CSI-702, CSI-703, CSI-709, CSI-710, CSI-721, CSI-740, CSI-746, CSI-780, CSI-787, 789. Some of these courses may serve as math/stat electives, others may satisfy as non-math electives.

• Department of Mathematical Sciences: Many courses at or above the MATH-550 level are acceptable as math/stat electives. 

• Department of Statistics: Most courses at the STAT-500 level and above may serve as math/stat electives.

• Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research: Many courses at or above the OR-540 level are acceptable as non-math elective. Some of these courses are acceptable as math/stat electives.

The George Washington University

• Department of Computer Science:  Courses above the 200 level may serve as non-math elective. Some courses may also serve as math/stat elective, e.g. CSci-227, CSci-228, and CSci-243.

• Department of Mathematics: Math-219, Math-222, Math-231, Math-232 are acceptable as math/stat electives.

• Department of Statistics: Stat-201 and Stat-202 are equivalent to the core courses Math-501 and Math-503 of this program. Most courses above the 200 level may serve as math/stat electives.

• Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering:  Graduate level courses in Operations Research and Systems Management may serve as non-math elective. Some of these courses may also be acceptable as math/stat elective, e.g. EMSE-201, EMSE-202, EMSE-251, EMSE-252, EMSE-253, EMSE-254, EMSE-267, EMSE-277, EMSE-281.

 Howard University

• Department of Mathematics: The graduate level courses 214-234, 214-235, 214-236, 214-240, 214-241, 214-242, 214-243, 214-245, 214-247 may serve as math/stat electives. 

University of Maryland - College Park

• Department of Computer Science: Many courses at the 400+ level may serve as non-math elective. CMSC-460 is acceptable instead of our course MATH-504. CMSC-477 may serve as math/stat elective.

• Department of Mathematics: The graduate level courses MATH-414, MATH-420, MATH-424, MATH-452, MATH-456, MATH-462, MATH-464 STAT-410, STAT-420, STAT-430, STAT-440, STAT-464, STAT-470, AMSC-466, AMSC-477, MAIT-613, MAIT-615, MAIT-623, MAIT-626 may all serve as math/stat electives.

• Joint Program in Survey Methodology: SURV-410 and SURV-420 are possible substitutes for our courses MATH-501 and MATH-503. SURV-440, SURV-450, SURV-615, SURV-616, SURV-699A may serve as math/stat electives. Many other courses in the program may serve as non-math elective.