Mathematics, statistics, machine learning and data science are vital to the global economy and scientific progress across numerous fields from bioscience and healthcare, to energy and telecommunications. How we gather, analyse and utilise data is challenging the way organisations look at the world, and is reshaping our future.

With our wide range of postgraduate maths courses, you can:

• Be part of an open and informal learning community, with small class numbers and enthusiastic teaching staff.
• Develop hands-on research skills and experience in a summer research project, helping you stand out when applying for jobs or a PhD.
• Gain valuable work experience as part of your degree with an optional professional placement offered on many of our postgraduate maths courses.
• Access state-of-the-art facilities, including our High-Performance Computing cluster.
• Study in an internationally recognised maths research department with teaching excellence at all levels.
• Receive information, guidance and support from our dedicated careers team and departmental staff, preparing you for your future career.

Summer research project

Put your learning into practice and gain hands-on experience during your summer research project. You'll be supported to undertake an in-depth investigation or application of an area of maths, statistics, machine learning or data science.

These may be academic research projects or, on some of our courses, you may have the opportunity to work directly with industry partners and external organisations to support their research.

Examples of postgraduate summer research projects across the department include:

• Forecasting future energy demand using machine learning
• Ensemble learning for medical imaging
• Deep learning in high-frequency financial trading
• Spatiotemporal timing prediction for public transport

Go on a professional placement

Many of our postgraduate maths courses come with the option of doing a working placement in industry, giving you valuable work experience as part of your degree.

On placement, you'll be employed full-time in a role to match your future career ambitions, broadening your experience and transferable skills and putting what you've learned on your course to the test.

With over 50 years of experience offering placements and links with some of the world’s leading research institutions and global companies, you can apply for a wide range of placements in companies of all sizes - from household names to start-ups.

You'll receive dedicated support from our specialist placements team when you're looking for, and throughout, your placement.

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