Financial Mathematics
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The course specialised in the areas I was interested in, mostly mathematics and finance. I especially enjoyed the teaching and the combination of subjects on the course. I found the mathematics brush-up module pretty useful in the first semester. In general, the lecturers seemed very keen on giving us the best background.
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Postgraduate
In Leeds
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
Leeds
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Start date
Different dates available
This course integrates the study of mathematics with business finance, accounting, and economics. You’ll be introduced to the major areas of mathematics and finance and develop a broad base of mathematical and financial skills. The programme is designed to prepare you for a career in the finance industry or other parts of the private and public sector where analytical and mathematical skills are valued.
Two thirds of your time is spent on mathematics, including modules in financial mathematics covering mathematical modelling of financial and insurance markets, as well as pure, applied and statistical mathematics modules. You’ll be taught by Leeds University Business School, which is internationally renowned for the quality of its teaching, research and facilities, in the areas of business finance, accounting and economics. As you progress through the course, you’ll have more flexibility and choice of modules, allowing you to explore your particular areas of interest.
Enhancing your degree
This course offers you the opportunity to spend a year working in industry or studying at a university abroad, both of which provide valuable experience and help your personal development. Both of these schemes add an additional year to your course, taking the total course length to 4 years.
Our industrial placement scheme gives you the opportunity to gain work experience in an industry relevant to your degree and interests. Our students often describe this industrial experience as an invaluable part of their degree and one which stands them in good stead for their future careers.
The study abroad year enables you to gain insight into the study of mathematics with finance at one of our partner universities overseas. Many students have found this to be extremely worthwhile in helping broaden their horizons in terms of learning about a new culture and improving their foreign language skills.
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Entry requirements
A-level: AAA/A*AB where the first grade quoted is Mathematics.
AAB/A*BB including Further Mathematics and where the first grade quoted is Mathematics, or AAB/A*BB where the first grade quoted is in Mathematics plus A in AS Further Mathematics
Where an A-Level Science subject is taken, we require a pass in the practical science element, alongside the achievement of the A-Level at the stated grade.
Excludes A-Level General Studies or Critical Thinking.
GCSE: You must also have GCSE English at grade C or above (or equivalent).
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Reviews
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The course specialised in the areas I was interested in, mostly mathematics and finance. I especially enjoyed the teaching and the combination of subjects on the course. I found the mathematics brush-up module pretty useful in the first semester. In general, the lecturers seemed very keen on giving us the best background.
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Course rating
Recommended
Centre rating
Ida Andreasen
This centre's achievements
All courses are up to date
The average rating is higher than 3.7
More than 50 reviews in the last 12 months
This centre has featured on Emagister for 14 years
Subjects
- Risk
- Financial Accounting
- Risk Management
- Investment
- Statistics
- Mathematics
- Economics
- Calculus
- Financial Mathematics
- Finance
- Financial
- University
- School
- Industry
- IT risk
- Business School
- Management Accounting
- Financial Training
- GCSE Mathematics
- Probability
- Business Finance
Course programme
Overall the course will provide you with an integrated programme of finance, economics and accounting combined with mathematics, specifically tailored to working within financial services. Each year, you’ll take 80 credits in mathematics, including financial mathematics modules, and 40 credits in modules taught by Leeds University Business School.
In the first year of the course you’ll study key mathematics topics, including calculus and mathematical analysis, numbers and vectors, probability and statistics, and financial mathematics. In addition, you’ll be introduced to financial accounting, management accounting and economic theory.
Second year builds on the knowledge you acquired in first year, with more in-depth modules on financial mathematics, statistics, accounting, microeconomics and macroeconomics. There is also a chance for you to broaden your knowledge base through optional modules in topics such as computational mathematics and environmental statistics.
In the final year, about one third of your time is spent on core modules in banking and finance, data analysis and stochastic financial modelling. In the remaining time, you have freedom of choice to pursue particular interests through a wide range of optional modules devoted to mathematics, finance, business studies and economics.
Course structureThese are typical modules/components studied and may change from time to time. Read more in our Terms and conditions.
Modules Year 1Compulsory modules
- Introductory Financial Accounting 10 credits
- Introductory Management Accounting 10 credits
- Economic Theory and Applications 1 20 credits
- Calculus and Mathematical Analysis 10 credits
- Numbers and Vectors 10 credits
- Linear Algebra with Applications 15 credits
- Modelling with Differential Equations 10 credits
- Financial Mathematics 1 15 credits
- Probability and Statistics I 10 credits
- Probability and Statistics II 10 credits
Compulsory modules
- Corporate Finance 20 credits
- Financial Mathematics 2 10 credits
- Financial Mathematics 3 10 credits
- Introduction to Optimisation 10 credits
- Introduction to Markov Processes 10 credits
- Intermediate Microeconomics 10 credits
- Intermediate Financial Accounting 20 credits
- Intermediate Management Accounting 20 credits
- Intermediate Macroeconomics 10 credits
- Real Analysis 15 credits
- Further Linear Algebra 10 credits
- Discrete Mathematics 10 credits
- Discrete Mathematics with Computation 15 credits
- Vector Calculus 15 credits
- Linear Differential Equations and Transforms 10 credits ...
Financial Mathematics