数学系提供文学硕士学位（MA）。通过研究生院在线申请可申请入读硕士学位。（请参阅：申请程序。）下面给出数学系的一般要求和具体要求。学生还应查阅研究生院的“一般要求”以及研究生目录中的“学术法规”（也可在上述网站上在线获得）。
Our Ph.D. program received a very favorable evaluation in the latest report on U.S. graduate programs in mathematics from the National Research Council. Our presence in the top tier of departments is a testament to the vibrant research and teaching community that is thriving at Vanderbilt University. There are about 50 full-time faculty and just 40 graduate students in our department, providing an excellent student to faculty ratio. Our faculty includes one Fields Medalist and other world-renowned researchers, leading first-rate research groups in algebra and logic, applied and computational harmonic analysis, approximation theory, combinatorics and graph theory, geometric group theory, geometry and topology, mathematical biology, non-commutative geometry and operator algebras, number theory, partial differential equations, and others. Beyond the mathematics department, Vanderbilt University has a wide range of research programs providing the opportunity to get to know, and collaborate with, students and faculty in other departments. The Mathematics Department offers the Master of Arts (M.A.) degree. Admission to candidacy for the master's degree is requested through applications available online at the Graduate School.