Mathematics Operational Research and Statistics (BSc)
| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2025-09-01 | - |
Program Overview
The Mathematics Operational Research and Statistics (BSc) program combines statistics, operational research, and mathematics, providing flexibility, professional placements, and excellent facilities. It equips students with analytical skills for careers in data science, operational research, finance, and more, while offering optional modules in areas like finance, statistics, and artificial intelligence.
Program Outline
Mathematics Operational Research and Statistics (BSc)
Degree Overview:
This three-year full-time undergraduate program combines statistics and operational research with mathematics. It offers:
- Flexibility: Options to switch degrees within the same school.
- Professional placements: Opportunity to complete a Summer placement as a mathematician or statistician.
- Excellent facilities: Abacws, a world-leading facility featuring an innovation trading room for financial mathematics.
- Accreditation: Professionally accredited by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA).
Objectives:
- Equip students with the skills to analyze complex organizational problems using methods like data collection, statistical modeling, and simulation.
- Prepare students for diverse career options in data science, operational research, finance, and more.
Outline:
The program comprises three years with a specific curriculum for each:
Year One:
- Core modules focus on Pure and Applied Mathematics foundations.
- Optional modules allow students to explore areas like Financial Mathematics, Statistics, Computing, and Operational Research.
- Most modules are common across different degree schemes within the school, allowing for potential transfers.
Year Two:
- Core modules continue building knowledge in Calculus, Algebra, and Analysis.
- Students choose additional modules based on their interests and career aspirations.
- Students can opt for individual research projects to develop crucial skills and apply knowledge in a personalized manner.
Optional modules across all years
cover areas like:
- Finance
- Number Theory
- Differential Equations
- Statistics
- Data Analysis
- Optimization
- Artificial Intelligence
Assessment:
Assessment methods include:
- Written exams
- Continuous assessment through problem-solving exercises, written reports, computer programs, and oral presentations
- Feedback through class discussions, written comments on submitted work, and review of solved problems
Grading:
- Final degree grade based on 30% from year two and 70% from year three studies.
Teaching:
- Instruction through lectures, small-group tutorials, and examples classes.
- Encourages independent learning and critical reflection.
- Increased focus on theoretical concepts and essential mathematical techniques in class sessions.
- Opportunities for students to engage in additional reading, discuss assessments and feedback, and reflect upon their learning.
Support Mechanisms:
- Personal tutor assigned to provide pastoral and academic advice.
- Access to extensive learning materials, including presentations, handouts, bibliographies, exercises, and discussion forums through Learning Central platform.
- “Personal Development Planning” module on Learning Central for self-reflection.
- University-wide services like Careers Service, Counselling Service, Disability and Dyslexia Service, Student Support Service, and libraries.
- Maths Support Service offering daily drop-in sessions for individualized or group tutoring.
Careers:
Graduates can pursue careers in diverse fields, including:
- Data science
- Operational research
- Internet technology
- Medicine
- Banking
- Logistics
- Risk management
- Marketing The program also allows graduates to pursue further postgraduate studies in sciences, computing, or engineering to broaden their career options.
Career Support:
- Masterclasses available in the second semester of year one on topics like work experience, resume writing, interview skills, and LinkedIn introduction.
- Regularly updated student jobs board with various opportunities.
- School of Mathematics offers a dedicated Careers Management Skills Programme, presentations by alumni returning from industry, and sponsored academic achievement awards.
Other:
- Up to 52% of the course can be taken through the medium of Welsh language.
Fees for home status
We are currently awaiting confirmation on tuition fees for the 2025/26 academic year. The University reserves the right to increase tuition fees in the second and subsequent years of a course as permitted by law or Welsh Government policy. Where applicable we will notify you of any change in tuition fee by the end of June in the academic year before the one in which the fee will increase.
Students from the EU, EEA and Switzerland
We are currently awaiting confirmation on tuition fees for the 2025/26 academic year. Learn more about the undergraduate fees for students from the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man. We are currently awaiting confirmation on tuition fees for the 2025/26 academic year.
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