Postgraduate Taught Degrees

Taught Master's opportunities in Maths

Our postgraduate Master's courses combine high-quality teaching with a stimulating research environment to provide students with expertise and skills for further postgraduate study or a fulfilling career in industry or education.

Regardless of your background, or whether you are coming from the UK or overseas, you will find our research environment to be intellectually stimulating and filled with opportunities.

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Postgraduate taught degrees >

Maths Master's Degrees

The links below will take you to the central course pages where you will find an overview of the course- including entry requirements, modules, assessment, and teaching, how to apply as well as information about life at Warwick.

MSc in MathematicsLink opens in a new window

Degree length and content:

This one-year degree covers a full range of both pure and applied areas
The degree involves lecture modules and a dissertation (typically written in the summer)

Who is this course for?

Candidates with a strong and broad mathematical background
Perfect for candidates who wish to focus on primarily mathematical questions

MSc in Interdisciplinary MathematicsLink opens in a new window

Degree length and content:

One-year degree incorporating mathematics and another discipline. For example, Mathematics and Physics
You will take modules both in Mathematics and from at least one other department
Dissertations are expected to be interdisciplinary

Who is the course for?

Candidates who want to explore Mathematic connections to other disciplines

Master of Advanced Study (MASt) in Mathematical SciencesLink opens in a new window

Degree length and content:

Nine-month course running from October to June
A masters-level course that offers the same qualification that is awarded by the Cambridge "Part III" mathematics course
MASt students pursue the same studies as Warwick mathematics students in the fourth year of their MMath degree
The requirements and course structure for MASt and MMath are the same

Who is the course for?

For those who did a BSc outside of Warwick and wish to pursue a further degree- equivalent to the final year of the MMath

MSc in Mathematical FinanceLink opens in a new window

Degree length and content:

One-year degree offers a high-level mix of mathematical and financial disciplines
Taught by three of the University’s top departments: Mathematics, Statistics, and the Warwick Business School
The degree is administered by the Warwick Business School

Who is the course for?

You are interested in interdisciplinary degrees with mathematics and any type of finance

Difference between MASt and MSc:

The MASt and MSc degrees differ primarily in the length of time it takes to complete the course and the weighting of the dissertation on the final mark.
The MASt finishes in June and incorporates a research project worth 25% of the final mark.
The MSc runs for the whole academic year and incorporates a longer dissertation worth 50% of the final mark.

Mathematics or Interdisciplinary Mathematics?

Mathematics at Warwick covers a full range of both pure and applied areas. The Mathematics Postgraduate Degrees are appropriate for students with a strong and broad mathematical background who wish to continue to focus on primarily mathematical questions in their postgraduate work.

Requirements and procedures for Interdisciplinary Mathematics degrees are very similar to those for the Mathematics degrees, except that any coursework and all research involves both mathematics and another discipline. For example Mathematics and Physics, Mathematics and Biology, or Mathematics and Economics. To achieve this, students are required to take modules both in Mathematics and from at least one other department. Theses and dissertations are required to be interdisciplinary.

Students interested in interdisciplinary degrees with mathematics and any type of finance will be directed to the Financial Mathematics MSc.

Employability support >

Careers support

Our department has a dedicated professionally qualified Senior Careers Consultant offering impartial advice and guidance together with workshops and events throughout the year. Previous examples of workshops and events include:

Maths Careers Fair
Careers in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Warwick careers fairs throughout the year
Mathematics at work – The practical application of Maths in the workplace
Placement and graduate opportunities at the Government Actuary’s Department

Research topics >

Research

An important component of our Masters degrees is the dissertation (MSc degree) or research project (MASt degree). Within the Mathematics Institute you will find a wide range of reseach areas to chose from.

Staff research areas

Here you will find a list of academic staff together with a short description of their research interestests.

Seminars by subject

Here you will find all the currently running research seminars in the Mathematics Department.

Recent dissertation and project titles:

Sheaves, Schemes and Cohomology
The Wiener-Ikehara Theorem and its Applications
Phase Coexistence of Gradient Gibbs Measures
Cell Signalling and Patterning in Developmental Biology
Finite Dimensional C[x,y]-Module
Gorenstein curves in codimension four
Multi-Armed-Bandit Problem
The Hardy Littlewood Circle Method and its application to 3 term APs within the primes
Developing a stochastic model for the re-emergence of gHAT infections in previously eliminated villages.
Permutation groups and the Mathieu groups
Phase transitions for Potts antiferromagnets
Mathematical Modeling of COVID-19 Euclidean buildings theory.
Classification of Wallpaper Groups
Leinster Groups
Using Physics Informed Neural Networks for solving Geometric Partial Differential Equations
Topics in Tropical Geometry
Investigating the Impact Immunity has on the Dynamics of COVID-19
From Group Presentations to Three-Manifolds
Periodic Points of Toral Automorphisms

Before you apply >

Are you ready?

If you are considering applying, please bear in mind that the material in our master's courses is challenging. It stretches our best undergraduate students who have taken the first three years of our demanding MMath degree. If you do not already have the necessary mathematical background, the demands are such that there will be little time to catch up.

For a good indication of the expected mathematical level that you should have reached before enrolling, we recommend that you complete the self-evaluation. It is designed to help you understand the level of knowledge we expect our students to have before starting one of our master's degree courses.

Before you are admitted, you will be asked to state that you have passed, to your own satisfaction, the self-evaluation.

Complete self-evaluation