We're here to help plan your academic journey.
Our advisors help math students plan courses, review degree progress and more. We also help students who are not pursuing math degrees with course placement, proficiency exams and other issues.
You can access degree requirements in the undergraduate catalog.
If you have any questions, please consult the following contacts, or call us at 815-753-0566:
- Math major (general, applied, computational or undecided emphasis): Alastair Fletcher, afletcher@niu.edu.
- Math major (mathematics education emphasis): Contact your assigned faculty advisor.
- Math minor: Alastair Fletcher (general and applied math), afletcher@niu.edu.
- Graduate study: Sien Deng, gradprog@niu.edu.
- Teacher certification: Renee Olsen, rolsen2@niu.edu.
Transfer Students
If you're transferring to NIU, we recommend checking the transfer credits and program major guides or contacting an NIU advisor. We can advise you on which courses do or do not transfer. NIU does not offer transfer credit for mathematics courses below college algebra.
If you have an associate degree and are pursuing a major without a specific math requirement, you won't need to take any additional math courses are NIU.
Course Placement
You'll be placed into an initial mathematics course based on your prior academic work. We'll try to place you in a course in which you're likely to succeed. This may be a course that has some overlap with courses you've already taken.
If you haven't taken any post-secondary mathematics classes, you must take our placement exam.
Teacher Certification
We recommend contacting an advisor to help plan your courses. Our coordinators of educator licensure are Renee Olsen (rolsen2@niu.edu) and Allison Machek (amachek@niu.edu).
It's possible to complete the calculus sequence and the computer programming course at a community college. The computer science course should be a four-semester-hour course that articulates to NIU as CSCI 240.
If you take the calculus sequence at your community college and plan to take MATH 240 during your first semester at NIU, you should consider taking ILAS 201 (Introductory Clinical Experience) during the first semester as well.
Contact one of the coordinators of educator licensure by the end of the fifth week of the fall or spring semester that precedes your transfer to NIU. Turn in an application for ILAS 201 (DOCX) by the end of the seventh week of the same semester.