BSc Maths & Business

4 years full-time with integrated placement year

UCAS Code: GN11

Typical offers:
A Levels: 320-340 points (eg AAB-ABB) from three subjects.
BTEC National Diploma: DDD (including A Level Maths Grade B)
IB: 32 (including minimum Grade 6 in Maths at Higher Level)

Specific subject requirements: A Level: Maths grade B, General Studies accepted, GCSE: English grade B.

A suitable combination of 2 A Level and two AS Level subjects may be accepted.
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Applicants whose first language is not English will be required to provide evidence of an English language qualification.

Tuition fees:

£9,250 (£1,000 during placement year) for UK/EU students (2017/18)
£15,100 Outside EU students (2017/18)
Placement Year : £2,500 for International Students

The information contained on this website details the typical entry requirements for this course for the most commonly offered qualifications. Applicants with alternative qualifications may wish to enquire with the relevant admissions teams prior to application whether or not their qualifications are deemed acceptable. For less commonly encountered qualifications this will be judged on a case-by-case basis in consultation with the academic admissions tutor.

• This course provide a balanced blend of basic mathematical techniques, a rigorous examination of their validity, the development of underlying structures common to a number of concepts and the application of mathematics to solve complex problems that arise in the real world. We reflect the awareness of the excitingly complex patterns and systems that can arise from simple mathematical ideas.

  As a manager you will be a problem solver, planner and leader, challenged with meeting your organisation’s objectives by deploying key resources such as time, people and money efficiently and effectively. This course aims to prepare you for this challenge and for a successful career in management.

  Maths & Business students take 120 credits of modules per year, 60 from business modules and 60 from maths modules. A 10 credit module comprises approximately 100 learning hours and has up to three contact hours per week.

  Business

  The first two years deepen your understanding of how businesses operate and how to recognise and analyse the economic, technical, financial and social parameters within which modern managers make decisions.

  During your final year you will select your modules and specialise in an area of particular interest.

  Maths

  In the first year, your studies incorporate an expansion of A Level mathematical techniques. The final year allows you to choose specialist options to change the emphasis of your degree programme.

  Over the course of your degree you will consider:

  • differential equations, which are vital to the modelling of many real problems

  • the problem of obtaining approximate solutions to those questions which cannot be resolved by analytical mathematical methods

  • the underlying concepts in analysis and algebra

  • the benefit of research into chaos

  • the development of mathematical techniques as we know them today.

  Year 1

  Mathematics
  

  • Calculus and Ordinary Differential Equations (AM10CO)
    
  • Transition Mathematics (AM10TM)
    
  • Vector Algebra and Geometry (AM10VG)
    

  Business
  

  • Principles of Financial Accounting (BF1101)
    
  • Introduction to Organisational Behaviour (BH1107)
    
  • Introduction to Marketing Management (BM1134)
  • Introduction to Business Analytics (BN1116)
  • IT for Business (BN1160)
  • Economic Environment of Business (BS1102)
    
  Year 2

  Mathematics
  

  • Mathematical Algorithms (AM10CP)
  • Introduction to Analysis (AM10IA)
    
  • Statistics and Probability (AM10SP)
  • Introduction to Matlab (AM10IM)
  • Abstract Algebra (AM20AA)
  • Linear Mathematics (AM20LM)
  • Multivariate Calculus (AM20MC)

  Business
  

  • Management Accounting (BF2262)
  • Operations Management (BN2216)
  • Business Game (BN2225)
  • Business Policy (BS2232)
  • Business Economics (BS2240)
  • Business, Government (BS2246)
    
  Year 3 placement year
  • ABS Placement Module (BUP100)
  • EAS Study Placement Year (SEP001)
  • EAS Industrial Placement Year (SEP002)
  Final year

  During your final year you have the opportunity to specialise in the areas of maths and business of particular interest and relevance to your career.

  Core:

  • Financial Mathematics (AM30FT)
  • Principles of Finance (BF3351)
  • International Business Economics (BS3337)
  • Leadership (BH3319)
    

  Mathematics
  

  • Investigative Skills (AM20IS)
    
  • Statistical Pattern Analysis (AM20PA)
  • Probability Distributions (AM20PD)
  • Real Analysis (AM20RA)
  • Stochastic Processes (AM20SR)
  • Approximation Theory and Methods (AM30AT)
  • Financial Mathematics (AM30FT)
  • Game Theory (AM30GT)
  • Classical Mechanics (AM30ME)
  • Option Theory (AM30OT)
  • Portfolio Analysis (AM30PT)
  • Modern Time Series (AM30TS)
    

  Business
  

  • Psychology (BH3328)
  • International Marketing (BM3309)
  • Effective Management Consultancy (BN3370)
  • Entrepreneurial Strategy (BS3357)