Highlights
- Gain specialist analytical skills recognised by employers as essential for today's complex world.
- Combine underlying mathematical theory with modelling, computational skills, and the latest computer technology to solve real-world problems.
- Develop communication, problem solving, critical thinking and teamwork skills.
- Be involved in real-world applications and computer simulations in research projects.
- Find employment opportunities across a wide range of areas, such as finance, investment, information technology, environmental management, health, marketing, logistics, defence, media, education and research.
- QUT is ranked eighth for mathematics in Australia (QS World University Rankings by Subject, 2024).
This course provides high-quality learning for students who want to combine their studies in mathematics with considerable involvement in real-world applications and computational simulations. Computer simulation and visualisation techniques can be used in many research projects including bone fracture and wound healing, and modelling saltwater intrusion in coastal systems.
This major introduces you to a wide range of concepts in mathematical foundations, modelling and computational methods, and provides strong links between theory and application. You will investigate underlying mathematical theory to see how it can be applied to real-world scenarios from many fields of study including the physical and chemical sciences, biology, engineering and the social sciences. You will also develop computational solution and simulation methods to couple with modelling skills in order to investigate large-scale applied problems.
