NOTE: CRWT and MATH courses are determined by placement testing and should be taken following the sequence above.

Total Credits Required for undergraduate degree: 128 credits [5]

GPA Required for BS in Data Science: 2.0

GPA Required for 4+1 Pathway: 3.0

WI: Writing Intensive – 3 courses required in the major.

*General Education courses can be done in any order with the exception of INTD 101, CRWT and MATH. Those three general education courses will need to be done first. First Year Seminar is taken in the first semester. Failure to complete CRWT and MATH will result in a hold when the student hits 64 credits. The following general education courses can be done in any order. For more info on these courses, please visit the General Education program requirements website in the College Catalog:

+W: Students transferring in with 48 or more credits are waived from these general education requirements.

[1] See the course catalog for prerequisites for Calculus I. One of the ways to enter Calculus I is to place into it via the Accuplacer Advanced Algebra and Functions (AAF) placement test at the RCNJ Testing Center. The Testing Center is open all year round. If the placement test results for a given student indicate that developmental courses are required (for instance, Precalculus, or Elementary Algebra Topics followed by Precalculus), such developmental courses may be taken as early as during the summer session(s) preceding the student’s freshman year [Summer Session I (late May – late June) or Summer Session II (mid July – mid August)]. See the RCNJ Testing Center website for more details on the AAF test.   

Those mathematics majors who end up taking Precalculus, which is a 4-credit-hour course counting towards graduation credits, can count it as, for instance, the 4 HR Elective in the Fourth Year Spring in the table above. 

[2] A student in Math 4+1 program must take either Math 353 or Math 370, but not both. Math 353 is a fall course offered only in even years. Math 370 is a spring course. If a student takes both of these two courses, then the one taken earlier will count as a “MATH Elective Level 300 or Above” requirement, but the one taken later will be counted as a general elective, and not as a “Math elective Level 300 or above”. Similarly, if a student first takes MATH 237 and later takes MATH 205, then MATH 205 will not count as a math elective, but as a general elective.

[3] Two additional credits are required in the 3rd year because graduate courses are only 3 credits, instead of the usual 4 credits for undergraduate courses.  Thus, a student must take an additional 2 credits to meet the 128-credit undergraduate graduation requirement. Note that one additional credit hour is being taken in the fall second year Physics lab.

Total Graduate Credits Required: 30 credits [5]

GPA Required: 2.0

Student must be in good academic standing:  https://www.ramapo.edu/provost/policy/graduate-academic-standing/ 

[4] Students must complete two technical electives and one interdisciplinary elective. DATA 730 Fieldwork Experience may be used to replace one of the three total electives. 

[5] The 9 credits of graduate coursework taken in the fourth-year will double count towards both the undergraduate degree requirement of 128 credits as well as the required 30 graduate credits.  

Important Note:

The following important math courses run once every two years:

Number Theory: will be offered in spring of even years:  S26, S28, S30, etc.

Geometry: will be offered in spring of odd years: S27, S29, etc.

Statistics: will be offered in fall of even years: F24, F26, F28, etc.

Analysis:  will be offered in fall of even years:  F26, F28, F30, etc.

History of Math: will be offered in fall of odd years: F25, F27, F29, etc.

Abstract Algebra: will be offered in fall of odd years: F25, F27, F29, etc.

If you plan on taking any of these six important courses listed above that run once every two years (or if you are required to take any of them), then the following sequencing of these courses is recommended due to the fact that they run once every two years:

If you first became a student at Ramapo College in the academic year whose fall semester is an even year (for example, if you started in Fall 2024 or Spring 2025), then plan for:

Spring of Sophomore Year:

–          Number Theory

Spring of Junior Year:

–          Geometry

Fall of Junior Year:

–          Statistics

–          Analysis

Fall of Senior Year:

–          Abstract Algebra

–          History of Mathematics

If you first became a student at Ramapo College in the academic year whose fall semester is an odd year (for example, if you started in Fall 2025 or Spring 2026), then plan for:

Spring of Sophomore Year:

–          Geometry

Spring of Junior Year:

–          Number Theory

Fall of Junior Year:

–          Abstract Algebra

–          History of Mathematics

Fall of Senior Year:

–          Statistics

–          Analysis