
Welcome!
Registration for our Fall 2022 cohorts is now closed.
If you’d like an email reminder when SUBgroups registration opens for Fall 2023, fill out this short form.
What are SUBgroups?
- small online peer groups of first-year math grad students that connect students with experiences and identities in common.
- regularly-scheduled video chat sessions to support and connect with first-years in other programs
- chances to share successes and struggles, to lift up others, and to bridge into new math experiences. Learn more.
Here’s what some former SUBgroups participants had to say:
“I liked being able to talk to other students who had similar experiences to me. It was a place where I could safely vent about my own school/cohort. It was neat to learn about different programs and how they function.”
“I felt like I was able to learn a lot about other peoples’ experiences and that helped make me feel that I was not alone.”
“Do it! I knew that the first semester of grad school would be rough, and indeed it was, but having an awesome group of people who were willing to talk about their experiences and listen to each other was such a great source of support, validation, and joy, and I’m so thankful to SUBgroups for that.”

We are glad to share that a team of junior physicists runs SU(5), a program modeled on SUBgroups for first-year physics grad students. Please tell your physics friends & colleagues!
Want to learn more about SUBgroups? Here’s how it works.
Since fall 2019, SUBgroups has served over 450 students. Graduate programs across many states have been represented, as well as programs in Canada and around the world! As a sampling, here are schools that were represented in Fall 2019:
Auburn
Brandeis
Brown
Bryn Mawr
Cal State – East Bay
Colorado State
Duke
Emory
Florida Atlantic
George Mason
George Washington
Georgia Tech
Iowa State
Kentucky
Michigan State
MIT
Northwestern
Notre Dame
Ohio State
SUNY Albany
Syracuse
Temple
Texas A&M
University of British Columbia
UC Riverside
UC San Diego
UC Santa Barbara
Universidad de Chile
University of Colorado – Denver
University of Georgia
University of Hamburg
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of Montana
University of New Mexico
University of Oklahoma
University of Oregon
University of Texas – Arlington
University of Texas – Austin
University of Toronto
University of Victoria
University of Washington
University of Windsor
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Washington University in St. Louis
Wesleyan
West Virginia University
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
