TopMath – Mathematics with Integrated Doctorate Program

The Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “TopMath – Mathematics with Integrated Doctorate Program“ ena­bles nota­bly talent­ed stu­dents to learn inde­pen­dent­ly, to work on their specif­ic math­emati­cal inter­ests, and to further their abili­ties in a re­search-orien­tated envi­ron­ment from the start of their Mas­ters’ stud­ies. Stu­dents with excel­lent results start work­ing on their PhD thesis before the end of their first mas­ter’s year, and attain their PhD in math­emat­ics within just 4 years of doing their bache­lor quali­fica­tion.

In addi­tion to the early spe­cialisa­tion, stu­dents ac­quire a broad math­emati­cal educa­tion: at least 15 credits must be achieved in fields of math­emat­ics unre­lated to their own field of re­search. Inter­disci­plinary cours­es, for exam­ple for the devel­op­ment of com­muni­cation, social and lead­ership skills round off the curric­ulum.

All stu­dents are ac­com­panied by men­tors from their fields of math­emat­ics, who give advice in mat­ters such as the direc­tion and struc­ture of their stud­ies, guid­ing them throughout their scien­tific work. The men­tors are uni­versity tutors from the de­part­ments of both Top­Math uni­versi­ties, the Tech­nical Uni­versity of Mu­nich and the Uni­versity of Augs­burg. They assist the stu­dents in plan­ning their indi­vidual curric­ulum, inte­grate them inten­sively into their scien­tific envi­ron­ment and sup­port them in net­work­ing within the whole scien­tific com­muni­ty.