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FHEQ level

This course is set at Level 6 in the national Framework for Higher Education Qualifications.

Course Aims

The Mathematics with Finance (BSc) degree programme aims to provide:
1. teaching in the mathematical and financial sciences that is broad-based and, where appropriate, informed by a research base of international standard;
2. a programme structure which allows transfer between certain programmes at appropriate stages, and a guided choice of courses to meet students' developing interests;
3. a coherent set of courses grouped for intellectual and vocational reasons, based on a mathematics, statistics and finance core building progressively on skills and knowledge acquired during the programme;
4. an admissions policy which gives access to students with special needs and to mature and other prospective students who may have unconventional academic backgrounds;
5. provision for students to develop personal and intellectual skills, enabling them to compete successfully on the employment market;
6. a caring and supportive environment for students from a diversity of cultures and backgrounds.

Course learning outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding: By the end of the programme a successful student is expected to be able to demonstrate basic knowledge and understanding of a core of analysis, algebra, applied mathematics and statistics; demonstrate knowledge and understanding of some advanced topics, depending on his or her own choice.

Knowledge and Understanding: By the end of the programme a successful student is expected to have demonstrated knowledge of the core principles of finance, including common knowledge in financial institutions, products and markets.

Intellectual Skills: By the end of the programme a successful student is expected to be able to demonstrate ability to understand and use mathematical argument and deductive reasoning; demonstrate awareness of the importance of mathematical and statistical assumptions and awareness of their use.

Intellectual Skills: By the end of the programme a successful student is expected to be able to analyse a finance problem or issue using an appropriate theoretical framework and present ideas, concepts and information using means appropriate to the audience and the problem at issue.

Practical Skills: By the end of the programme a successful student is expected to be able to demonstrate competence in the use of mathematical methods and techniques in problem solving and modelling; explore, and where feasible solve, mathematical/financial problems, by selecting appropriate techniques; demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the process of mathematical or statistical modelling.

Practical Skills: By the end of the programme a successful student is expected to be able to demonstrate an understanding of appropriate concepts in finance that may be of wider use in a decision-making context (e.g. discounting and interest rate markets).

Transferable Skills: By the end of the programme a successful student is expected to be able to: take decisions in complex and unpredictable contexts; apply a selection of mathematical, computational, numerical, statistical and financial skills; communicate scientific/financial information orally and in writing; take responsibility for their own learning, and manage time appropriately.

Full-time course composition