Requirements for the Master's Degree
At the end of each semester, the Mathematics Graduate Committee will review the work of each student enrolled in the graduate program in order to determine whether the student is in good academic standing in accordance with the guidelines presented by the Graduate School in the Bulletin of Tufts University. In particular, all courses should have been completed with a grade of B- or better, and all deadlines determined by the Graduate School or the Department should have been met.
If a student is not in good standing at the end of a semester, and if the student has not automatically been dismissed from the program in accordance with the requirements for the degree, the committee will warn the student in writing near the beginning of the following semester that he or she is in danger of being dismissed from the program unless improved performance is shown. A student whose progress is still unsatisfactory at the end of that semester will be dismissed from the graduate program. To be readmitted, the student must submit a new application form; readmission may be subject to the reinstatement policy described in the Guide for Graduate Students.
At the beginning of the spring semester, the Graduate Committee will review awards of teaching assistantships and tuition scholarships made to incoming students. Support may be redistributed in light of students' performance during their first semester. Thereafter, the Graduate Committee will normally recommend renewal of this support as long as the student is in good academic standing; however, teaching assistantship support is limited to the first two years of graduate study in our program (for Masters' students), and, for PhD students, to the first four years of graduate study in our program.
If a student receiving support is not in good academic standing at the end of a semester, the graduate committee, in consultation with the student's instructors and advisor, may decide to recommend immediate termination or nonrenewal of the support, subject to the termination policy described in the Guide for Graduate Students. If the support is renewed and if it appears to the committee in the middle of the following semester that the student's performance has not improved sufficiently, the committee, in consultation with the student's instructors and advisor, may decide not to reserve this support for the next semester or year and may assign it to another student or applicant. If the student's performance has improved sufficiently at the end of the semester, the committee may attempt to restore the support but cannot be expected to be able to do so. In any case where support is to be terminated or not to be renewed, the student will be notified in writing before action is taken. Similar rules apply to a student who has not fulfilled the core requirement by the end of the third semester.
Financial support can be suspended or terminated immediately if the student does not satisfactorily perform the duties associated with the support.