School of Mathematics

Degree overview

All of our programmes start with a common core of mathematics courses, with increasing options for specialisation in later years depending on your interests.

Take a look at the following breakdown for an idea of the content covered in each year of the programme. 

Note that this is a general overview, primarily focusing on the single honours mathematics programmes. If you are applying for a joint honours degree, your compulsory courses, and the time available for outside subjects will vary a little more. For a detailed look at your specific programme of interest, please check the relevant page of the University's online degree finder.

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Year 1

Our first year courses are designed to introduce you to studying mathematics at university level.

You may be familiar with some of the concepts from school (e.g. vectors, matrices, differentiation and integration), but these courses will look at them in a different way as well as going much more deeply into the theory.

Year 2

Our Year 2 curriculum provides you with a broad mathematical education. This allows you to try different areas of mathematics at university level, whilst keeping your options open for later in your degree, and ultimately makes you a more well-rounded mathematician.

Year 3

At this stage of the programme, you will focus solely on your degree subject(s), and have the option to begin specialising with your subject area(s).

If studying a joint honours programme, your time will be split approximately 50/50 between both your subjects.

Year 4

At this stage of the programme, our students have free choice over the courses they choose, and the range of courses on offer is such that two mathematics students could be following entirely different programmes!

Year 5 (MMath only)