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Dartmouth (Guarini) will not admit math PhD cohort this year

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The Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies officially alerted applicants on Nov. 10 that submitted materials for the 2027–2028 academic year would no longer be reviewed. Department leadership is currently in discussions with senior deans to chart a path forward and potentially restart recruitment for the track. The freeze removes an annual intake of roughly seven to nine incoming doctoral scholars from the program. Mid-November meetings were arranged among university administrators, faculty, and graduate researchers to deliberate on the review process.

Key points

  • Institutional stipends, financial support, and graduation funding guarantees remain fully…: Institutional stipends, financial support, and graduation funding guarantees remain fully protected for all currently enrolled mathematics doctoral candidates.
  • Administrators have declined to provide an official timeline regarding whether or when ad…: Administrators have declined to provide an official timeline regarding whether or when admissions for prospective students will restart.
  • Mathematics faculty, including professor Peter Winkler, have actively challenged the susp…: Mathematics faculty, including professor Peter Winkler, have actively challenged the suspension while pursuing administrative pathways to resume future admissions.

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The Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies has suspended admissions to the next cohort in its math Ph.D. program, which would matriculate in the 2027-2028 academic year. Guarini dean Carrie Colla ’01 and College spokesperson Jana Barnello did not specify when or whether the program would resume admissions.

Colla wrote in a Nov. 10 email statement to The Dartmouth that Guarini “regularly considers how to best invest in graduate education.”

“As part of those regular reviews, we are pausing admissions to the math Ph.D. program for the 2027-2028 cycle while the School of Arts and Sciences conducts a department review,” she wrote.

The decision to suspend the program “was made in close partnership with leaders in the School of Arts and Sciences and we look forward to working collaboratively with the department on this review,” Colla added.

She wrote in a Nov. 10 email to current graduate students that there “will be opportunities for students to participate in the review” and that she would meet with math graduate students and department faculty on Nov. 17. Graduate students can also…

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