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Math Course Placement Guide

Based on your ALEKS PPL Assessment Score and your major, you will be placed in one of the following math classes.

Select your college to view assessment score requirements by major

College of Arts & Sciences (CAS)

Biology (including Marine Biology)

Score Placement
0-39 MTH 100
40-54 MTH 148E
55-100 MTH 148

Pre-Engineering, Pre-Science, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biochemistry

Score Placement
0-39 MTH 100
40-54 MTH 148E
55-69 MTH 150
70-100 MTH 151

Economics & Health Care Administration

Score Placement
0-39 MTH 100
40-54 MTH 146E
55-100 MTH 146

English, Communication, Crime and Justice Studies, Sociology, History, Health and Society BA, Liberal Arts, Philosophy, Portuguese, Sociology & Anthropology, Spanish, Women's and Gender Studies

Score Placement
0-44 MTH 140E
45-100 MTH 140

Psychology, Political Science, Public Administration, and Health and Society BS 

Score Placement
0-44 MTH 147E
45-100 MTH147

Charlton College of Business (CCB): Accounting, Business Undeclared, Finance, General Business Administration, Human Resources Management, International Business, Management, Management Information Systems, Marketing, Operations Management

Score Placement
0-39 MTH 100
40-54 MTH 146E
55-100 MTH 146

College of Engineering (COE): Advanced Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Astronomy/Astrophysics, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computational Physics, Computer Engineering/Cybersecurity, Computer Science/Cybersecurity, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Undeclared, Environmental Resources, Game Design, Mechanical, Mobile Application Development, Physics, Software Engineering, Sustainable Energy

Score Placement
0-39 MTH 100
40-54 MTH 148E
55-69 MTH 150
70-100 MTH 153

College of Nursing & Health Sciences (CNHS)

Nursing & Medical Lab Science

Score Placement
0-39 MTH 100
40-54 MTH 148E
55-100 MTH 148

College of Visual & Performing Arts

Score Placement
0-44 MTH 140E
45-100 MTH 140

Math classes available for student placement

  • MTH 100 Introductory & Intermediate Algebra
  • MTH 140 Quantitative Reasoning
  • MTH 146 Finite Mathematics
  • MTH 147 Fundamentals of Statistics
  • MTH 148 College Algebra
  • MTH 149 Introductory Calculus
  • MTH 150 Pre-calculus
  • MTH 151 Calculus I
  • MTH 153 Calculus for Appl. Science and Eng. I

Register for Orientation

Orientation is a required part of your Corsair experience to help prepare you for the transition to UMassD. You will need to use your applicant portal login to register, not your UMassD account login.

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