The aims of the programme are: To open up new career opportunities to graduates of traditional mathematics courses. To give specialists in other numerate disciplines (e.g. engineers, scientists or economists) the opportunity to deepen their understanding of mathematics and to master powerful modern mathematical techniques. To achieve these aims it is intended: To introduce relevant problems and to explain the context in which they arise. To formulate these problems in mathematical terms. To instruct students in modern mathematical methods powerful enough to deal with these problems. To develop the student's ability to solve problems through a series of steps in which the problems are reformulated and the methods are adapted and refined. On completion of the programme, students will be competent: To recognise, through discussion with the practicioner in that field, the essential features of a given industrial process or economic situation. To assign variables and to formulate relationships between them in the form of mathematical equations. To solve these equations by appropriate analytical, numerical or approximate methods. To interpret the mathematical solution in the idealised situation based on the essential features recognised above. To validate the model in the real situation. To make necessary adjustments to the model in the event that it does not validate. To communicate the implications of the model to the practitioner in the field, and advise on its implementation. View the current course structure →

For admission to the M.Sc. in Financial Mathematics Hold an award equivalent to an Honours B.Sc. or similar in any quantitative discipline, such as Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Engineering and Economics. Candidates must have an honours primary degree in one of the above disciplines with not less than 50% grade in Calculus, Linear Algebra, Quantitative Methods or similar modules. Applicants with appropriate combinations of professional qualifications and work experience will also be considered. International candidates who are non-native speakers of English must satisfy the University of their competancy in the English language.