Mathematics and Statistics BSc (Hons) with foundation year

Course overview

Why you should study this course

Foundation year

• Supports you to gain the academic skills required for degree-level study.
• Provides a grounding in key areas of mathematics and computing.

Degree

• You will be taught by a teaching team which includes researchers in applied mathematics with expertise in complex systems and fluid dynamics, who share their cutting edge research expertise through teaching and supervising projects (staff may be subject to change).
• The teaching team is passionate about and oriented towards the success and wellbeing of their students.
• You’ll have access to our computing facilities, which enable you to gain experience using mathematical software packages, like R, python, and MATLAB®⁴.
• You’ll also receive assistance from sigma, the university’s Centre for Excellence in Mathematics and Statistics Support⁴.
• You will be encouraged and supported to adopt an international perspective with opportunities to conduct Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) activities with students from around the world, participate in field trips overseas or spend a year studying abroad in Europe, America or Australia².

Careers and opportunities

On successful completion, you will have knowledge of:

• the theory and practice of the methods of statistics and their application
• the logical construction of a mathematical argument
• the application of mathematics to construct models and their resolution, with an appreciation of the validity of the model and the use of approximation
• the use a range of analytic and descriptive techniques
• the strengths and weaknesses of selected mathematical software and a selected programming or scripting languages and their use to extend capabilities
• a range of real-world applications of mathematics.

On successful completion you will be able to:

• understand, reproduce, and generalise logical mathematical reasoning
• organise and interpret information and results from mathematical models
• analyse problems and construct an appropriate formulation and solution with relatively little guidance or support
• use specialist modern information technology packages and a programming language confidently
• use a wide range of information resources to acquire relevant information.

Statisticians work in almost every sphere of life. Upon successful completion, there could be a range of career opportunities in areas such as business analysis, government planning, energy demand forecasting, scientific research, the pharmaceutical industry, medical statistics, market research, system reliability and quality control.