Mathematics and Statistics with Management BSc Placement offered

Postgraduate

In Uxbridge

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Uxbridge

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Mathematics and Statistics with Management offers a broad understanding of general management and will also teach you high level skills and knowledge in mathematics and statistics, helping you develop an outlook that will be hugely valuable whatever career path you follow after graduation.

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Location

Start date

Uxbridge (Middlesex)
Brunel University, UB8 3PH

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About this course

IELTS: 6 (min 5.5 in all areas)
Pearson: 51 (51 in all subscores)
BrunELT: 60% (min 55% in all areas)

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Subjects

  • GCSE Mathematics
  • Financial Training
  • Project
  • Financial
  • Calculus
  • Mathematics
  • Statistics
  • Options
  • Staff

Course programme

Course Content

This course enables you to study a substantial amount of maths coupled with selected topics from the field of management. Mathematics accounts for between two-thirds and three-quarters of the course with the same wide-ranging approach as the straight maths course. However, we place greater emphasis on statistics and operational research as these areas are especially relevant to management theory.

The remainder of the course consists of selected management topics in areas such as accountancy, finance and organisational studies – all taught at Brunel Business School.

Typical Modules

Level 1 compulsory

  • Transition to Independent Learning of Mathematics (see below for more)
  • Fundamentals of Mathematics
  • Organisational Behaviour and Analysis
  • Calculus
  • Linear Algebra
  • Probability and Statistics I
  • Algorithms and Numerical Methods.

Level 1 options

  • Introduction to Accounting
  • Principles and Practice of Marketing.

Level 2 compulsory

  • Multivariable Calculus
  • Advanced Calculus and Numerical Methods
  • Linear Methods
  • Probability and Statistics II
  • Elements of Combinatorics
  • Analysis 1
  • Operational Research
  • Employability Skills.

Level 2 options

  • Managing Change and Creativity in Organisations
  • Human Resource Management and its International Dimension
  • Management Accounting – Planning and Control.

Level 3 compulsory

  • Major Project (see below for more)
  • Risk and Optimisation for Financial Planning.

Level 3 options

  • Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations
  • Encryption and Data Compression
  • Numerical Methods for Differential Equations
  • Statistics III
  • Stochastic Models
  • Entrepreneurship and Small Business Ventures
  • Gender in Organisations
  • Strategic Management
  • Strategic Financial Management
  • Business Ethics, Environment Sustainability and Governance
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management.

Students can work to their strengths and emphasise real applications or abstract theory, using theoretical and/or computational tools. Furthermore, students who have completed a work placement may choose to focus on a project associated with their work experience.

Level 3 Major Project

This is a very valuable feature of the Mathematics and Statistics with Management BSc – a substantial piece of individual, course-related work, personally supervised by a staff member. Project work accounts for about one third of your Level 3 study load, and will often be connected to staff research areas – it may also be in response to industry demands.

Students usually select from a list of projects offered by staff members. During 2014-15, over 150 project titles were available. These covered a wide range of mathematical areas and applications including, for example:

  • The very famous ‘travelling salesman problem’ (also known as ‘the lazy waiter’!)
  • Simulations of iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma and game theory
  • The mathematics of complex networks such as the web or Facebook
  • Applications of statistics to the Premier League, police complaints data and climate change
  • Modern theories in quantitative finance – in particular, the highly influential financial derivatives (e.g. options) industry. (The ‘Black-Scholes theory’ is most famous for winning a Nobel Prize, and its misapplication is often blamed, rightly or wrongly, for the recent worldwide financial crisis.)

Students can work to their strengths and emphasise real applications or abstract theory, using theoretical and/or computational tools. Furthermore, students who have completed a work placement may choose to focus on a project associated with their work experience.

With special permission, a student may choose to undertake a project in management, supervised by a staff member from the Brunel Business School.

Read more about the structure of undergraduate degrees at Brunel and what you will learn on the course.


Additional information

Teaching and Assessment Teaching Up-to-date techniques Mathematics is an active and dynamic research centre. Our academics' work is frequently supported by external grants and contracts with leading industry and government establishments. As a result lecturers are often working at the frontiers of their subject and in active contact with modern users of mathematics. This in turn helps to ensure that our undergraduate degrees are truly up-to-date. Broad spectrum of thinking We offer a wide range of expertise in a variety of subjects. Many of our lecturers are widely published and highly recognised in their fields. How will I be taught? We use a range of approaches to help you engage effectively with the subject both through your tutors and working with fellow students: Lectures These offer a broad overview of key concepts and ideas – a useful framework from which you can pursue more in-depth study. Tutorials Smaller tutorial groups enable you to work on mathematics exercises with guidance from a staff member. Management tutorials enable students to actively contribute in group discussions and tasks – undertaking in-depth analysis and exploring ideas. Computer workshops These replace some tutorials in certain modules involving computer-based tasks. This includes some mathematical modules such as statistics and operational research. One-to-one In your final year you will normally have one-to-one supervision for your major project. We will also allocate you a personal tutor each year who’s available to discuss personal or academic problems. If you go on placement as part of sandwich course, your personal tutor will help you set objectives and monitor your progress – and provide further support if you need it. Assessment The ‘exams to coursework’ ratio is around 50:50 at Level 1, increasing to 70:30 at Level 3. We base your final degree class on your performance at Levels 2 and 3. Level 3 carries twice the weight of Level 2.

Mathematics and Statistics with Management BSc Placement offered

Price on request