The AMCS Masters of Arts program is intended for students who wish to go into professional careers in Applied Mathematics or wish to obtain sufficient background in Applied Mathematics to be a strong candidate for a doctoral program in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, Statistics, Financial Mathematics, etc. Applicants to this program should have taken sufficiently many advanced undergraduate mathematics courses so that their interest in and aptitude for mathematics can be assessed. It typically takes two years to complete the Masters program. All graduate students require a 3.0 GPA to graduate (no exceptions).