MATHEMATICS (MSC)
Master
In London
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
London
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Duration
1 Year
Our MSc Mathematics offers you the chance to study a range of modules in pure and applicable mathematics that are taught by active researchers. Depending on your choices, you will take either seven or eight modules, allowing you to study several different topics in depth, and to focus on the areas that interest you most.
You will also learn the methods of mathematical research: how to read mathematical papers and how to communicate mathematics, both in written form for your project dissertation, and orally when you give presentations about your project.
You will acquire the skills to pursue your interest in the subject, either formally with a research degree, or informally with independent reading. You will come to us as someone with a mathematics degree; you will graduate as a mathematician.
Our students appreciate the flexibility of this programme and the valuable support and direct interaction (face-to-face or online) with experienced lecturers who are also active researchers at the forefront of their discipline.
Whichever route you decide to take with our MSc Mathematics, you will gain access to resources for each module via our Moodle virtual learning environment, for example, typed lecture notes with worked examples and practice exercise, recordings of lectures, opportunities for interaction with lecturers and classmates via discussion forums or through our online teaching platform, Blackboard Collaborate. You will also have access to electronic textbooks and other digital resources via the library. In the past we have had students successfully complete our modules remotely from as far away as Antarctica!
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About this course
Graduates can pursue careers in the financial sector, actuarial profession, IT and computing, teaching and academia. Possible professions include actuary, statistician, or chartered accountant. This degree may also be useful in becoming a corporate investment banker, investment analyst, or quantity surveyor.
Second-class honours degree (2:2) or above with mathematics as the main field of study. Applicants with an undergraduate degree in another quantitative subject may be able to take Birkbeck’s Graduate Certificate/Graduate Diploma in Mathematics as a qualifying course.
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Subjects
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- Mathematics
- Project
- GCSE Mathematics
- Mathematics Essay
Course programme
The programme consists of 120 credits of taught modules and a dissertation worth 60 credits.
You take eight 15-credit Level 7 modules; you may replace two of these with a 30-credit Level 6 module at the discretion of the programme director.
COMPULSORY MODULE- Mathematics Essay
- Calculus 3: Transforms & Models
- Finite Mathematics
- Group Theory
- Linear and Nonlinear Optimization
- Mathematical and Numerical Methods
- Topology
- Mathematics Dissertation
Additional information
Part-time home students: £4680 pa
Full-time home students: £9360 pa
Part-time international students: £8010 pa
Full-time international students: £16020 pa
MATHEMATICS (MSC)