Study programmes

General information

Study programme guides are no longer included in the Student Handbook and are available only here on the web as hyperlinked PDF files. Please read the first few pages of the appropriate study programme guide (below) for general information before looking at your specific programme, and refer to our module web pages for full details of all Mathematical Sciences modules.

You may also find our 2010–11 subject stream diagrams useful. They indicate how our main modules are related and give a pictorial indication of prerequisites within four subject areas – Algebra and Discrete Mathematics, Analysis and Geometry, Applied Mathematics, Probability and Statistics – one per page of the PDF file.

Please see our module registration guide for details of registering your modules in SIS. Do not take a compulsory module as an option in an earlier year; it will cause problems with module registration in future.

Applications to change programme made in the first few weeks of the academic year may take several weeks to process due to Registry workloads and delay your module registration. You are advised to submit applications to change programme before 15 September.

Programmes for first and second year students

If you are in the first or second year of your degree programme this academic year then please follow this version of your study programme. You should aim to take modules in their "target" years, i.e. level-4 modules in the first year, level-5 modules in the second year, level-6 modules in the final BSc year or third MSci year, and level-7 modules in the final MSci year.

Correction: Essential Mathematical Skills examinations

Queen Mary assessment regulations have changed for 2011–12 onwards and you will have only one resit opportunity for your credit-bearing modules. We have not yet decided how this change will affect Essential Mathematical Skills but it will probably mean you will not be able to resit it after a year out of attendance, although you will still have a total of seven attempts during your first year. When we have further information it will appear here.

Programmes for third and final year students

If you are in the third MSci or final BSc year of your degree programme this academic year then please follow the study programme corresponding to the academic year when you began the programme as listed below, but note that these study programmes have not been updated to reflect current module availability. However, SIS should offer you the correct module diet unless you have taken one or more years out of College, in which case you may need to ask the Director of Undergraduate Studies to arrange for your module diet in SIS to be corrected as a special case.

  • 2008–9 or 2009–10
  • 2007–08 or earlier:
    • GN13 or G1L1. But please note that:
      • Economics renamed ECN273 Capital Markets to ECN226 Capital Markets 1 over summer 2010, so you need to take ECN226 Capital Markets 1 in order to satisfy your programme requirements;
      • you are not allowed to take BUS306 Financial Management (which is in the current programmes but not the old ones).
    • all other programmes

Royal Statistical Society (RSS) accreditation

Our current (December 2011) accreditation status is that:

  • the MSci in Mathematics with Statistics is accredited;
  • the BSc in Mathematics and Statistics is accredited, but graduates who wish to apply for RSS Graduate Statistician status must produce a transcript showing statistics content of 50% in the final year and 50% overall.

For example, taking all ten probability and statistics modules currently available at level 4–6 plus two level-7 probability or statistics modules should meet the requirement for BSc accreditation.

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