MMath Regulations

Integrated Masters Specifications - for those students whose programme of study starting in 2021/22 or later

For students whose programme of study began in 2021/22 or later, general regulations governing Integrated Masters programmes can be seen in the University’s Credit and Module Framework and Rules for AwardLink opens in a new window. Please note carefully that these are not the only regulations governing your programme of study, you will also need to look at the Course Regulations governing your programme of study for each year which are described elsewhere in this handbook.

Which Rules for Award apply to you depends on which academic year your programme of study began in.

Rules for Award for those students who programme of study began in 2021/22Link opens in a new window

Rules for Award for those students who programme of study began in 2022/23Link opens in a new window

Rules for Award for those students who programme of study began in 2023/24 or later

These main details of these are summarised as below but please see the links above for the full details of the rules which will be applied.

Students must take at least 480 CATS over their full programme of study.
Students can take no more than 150 CATS of FHEQ Level 4 modules (those generally with codes xx1xx) over their full programme of study.
Students can take no more than 30 CATS of FHEQ Level 4 modules (those generally with codes xx1xx) during years 2, 3 and 4.
Students must take at least 120 (or 105 for students whose programme of study began in 2021/22 or earlier) CATS of FHEQ Level 7 modules (those generally corresponding to modules with codes xx4xx) during their full programme of study (likely to all be taken in year 3 and year 4).
Students must pass at least 90 CATS of FHEQ Level 7 modules during their full programme of study (likely to all be taken in year 3 and 4).
The pass mark for modules at FHEQ Levels 4, 5 and 6 (those generally with codes xx1xx, xx2xx, xx3xx) is 40% and the pass mark for modules at FHEQ Level 7 (those generally with code xx4xx) is 50%.

See General Information about Regulations for a full explanation of FHEQ levels and their relationship to module codes.

To progress from year 1 to year 2 and from year 2 to year 3 students must

Pass all required core modules (where they exist)
Achieve an overall year average greater than or equal to 40.
Pass 90 CATS of modules from year 1 to year 2, at FHEQ level 5 or above to progress from year 2 to year 3 and at FHEQ level 6 or above to progress from year 3 to year 4, in each case from a total of at least 120 CATS.

To progress from year 3 to year 4 students must

Pass all required core modules (where they exist)
Achieve an overall year average greater than or equal to 40.
Pass 90 CATS of modules of modules at FHEQ level 6 or above from a total of at least 120 CATS.

Note that these are just the university regulations, there are additional department requirements and, in particular, special requirements to proceed from year 2 to year 3 of G103 and to proceed from year 3 to year 4 of G103.

To be awarded an MMath degree at the end of year 4 students must

achieve an overall average greater than or equal to 40 (using the year weightings describe in Maths degree programmes);
a year end average (for year 4) greater than or equal to 40;
have passed 90 CATS of modules at FHEQ level 7 or higher (over their entire programme)
have taken 120 CATS of modules at FHEQ level 7 or higher (over their entire programme).

Note that there is an exception to the point 4 above for students whose programme began in 21/22, they need only take 105 CATS of modules at FHEQ level 7 of higher, all other requirements are the same.

Integrated Masters Specifications - for those students whose programme of study started in 2020/21 or earlier

For students whose degree programme began in academic year 2020/21 or earlier the equivalent university regulations can be found here: