The Department of Mathematics is strongly committed to graduate education and research and offers programs of study leading to both the master's (MA and MS) and the doctor of philosophy (PhD) degrees. Its programs are designed to prepare students for mathematical careers in the academic, financial, and industrial sectors. PhD and Master's degrees are offered with concentrations in pure mathematics, applied and computational mathematics, and interdisciplinary fields including biomedical applications of mathematics and financial mathematics. Flexible master's programs may be designed for career goals of individual students. Financial Mathematics students may enhance their degree with a concentration in actuarial science.

The faculty of the department includes three Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professors (the highest academic honor bestowed by the university), an Eminent Scholar Chair in High Performance Computing, a McKenzie Professor, three Distinguished Research Professors, two recipients of Developing Scholar Awards, and more than a dozen recipients of University Teaching and Advising Awards. They are active in research spanning the fields of pure mathematics (algebra, analysis, geometry, topology), applied mathematics (high performance computing, fluid dynamics, aeroacoustics, galactic dynamics), and biomedical mathematics (computational biology, evolutionary game theory, protein geometry, knotting of DNA, conformal mapping of anatomical regions). The department has strong cooperative relationships with science and engineering departments and institutes on campus, including the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, the interdisciplinary program in Computational Science and Information Technology, the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute, and the Institute for Molecular Biophysics. The faculty working in biomedical mathematics look forward to developing a close relationship with the medical school now being established at FSU.

Aside from an eclectic array of beginning and advanced courses in graduate mathematics, the student may take advantage of approved courses in other disciplines that complement their program of study. This includes course work in biochemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, finance, molecular biology and biophysics, physics, risk management, and statistics. There is an active seminar and colloquium series; most recently the advanced seminars (graduate students with faculty) have included biomedical mathematics, high performance computing, aeroacoustics, algebraic cryptography, algebraic geometry, geometric group theory, mathematical biophysics, quantum computing, Riemann surfaces, and symbolic computation. The graduate students run their own seminar where students have an opportunity to share with colleagues their mathematical research or interests.

For all students, the university provides internet access, course webpages and communications, and access to a number of leading databases including the Mathematical Reviews. The department operates its own network of computers and computer labs, including a graduate computer lab with high speed optical internet connections. Faculty and students in the department have access to a variety of mathematical software which is used in courses and in research.