I am coming into my final semester as a Mathematics major and I really was interested in going to graduate school. I only have two more classes left which are Real Analysis and Complex Analysis. As of now, my cumulative GPA is 3.60 and my major GPA is 3.65. I really loved differential equations and partial differential equations but I keep hearing that with a Pure Mathematics degree I won’t get accepted to a Graduate Engineering Program? Is this true? Also, which types of engineering programs will I have the best chance of getting accepted into?
Possible for some subjects or subspecialties, but you may need to have some undergraduate course background:
Industrial engineering: probability theory, optimization, operations research, linear programming, etc.
Electrical engineering (signals and communications): Fourier analysis, probability theory, etc.
Computer science (theory): algorithms, theory of computation, number theory, cryptography, combinatorics, etc.
Most areas of engineering do require an undergraduate background in engineering topics that are physics based.
In addition, it will depend on the school. Some graduate engineering programs have strict rules that the B.S. degree MUST be in an engineering field. Some do not. I am one of those with a B.S. in Math (Computational) and a M.S. in Engineering. My graduate degree is from University of Wisconsin which ALLOWS Math, Physics and Chemistry majors to apply to graduate engineering programs.