Mathematics BSc (Hons)

at Coventry University

Why you should study this course

Our extensive faculty links with potential employers, including National Grid, MathWorks, Unipart, Rolls-Royce and Jaguar Land Rover, help us to maintain an excellent track record for graduate employability.

You’ll have the opportunity to access our computing facilities, which enable you to gain experience using mathematical software packages, like MAPLE and MATLAB.

You’ll have the option to access one-to-one assistance from Sigma, the university’s internationally renowned Centre for Excellence in Mathematics and Statistics Support, which previously won the Times Higher Education (THE) award for Outstanding Support for Students.

You will be taught by a teaching team which currently includes active researchers in applied mathematics with expertise in fluid dynamics and complex systems, who share their research findings through teaching and supervising projects.

What you'll study

Year one
Your first year lays the foundation for the more advanced study of mathematics, consolidating previous learning and exploring some of the advanced concepts in algebra, calculus, statistics, mathematical modelling, and numerical analysis. You should also develop associated academic and professional skills, including personal development planning.

Modules

• Statistics - 20 credits

• Algebra - 20 credits

• Calculus - 20 credits

• Mathematical Modelling - 20 credits

• Introduction to Real and Numerical Analysis - 20 credits

• Professional and Academic Skills 1 - 10 credits

• Add+vantage – 10 credits

Year two
In the second year you will develop the mathematics which you started to study in year one, concentrating on a core of theoretical and applicable mathematics from algebra and calculus, and at this stage you will have the option of retaining a strand of statistical study or of developing more advanced methods in calculus.

Modules

• Further Algebra and Calculus - 20 credits

• Real and Complex Analysis - 20 credits

• Discrete Mathematics - 20 credits

• Differential Equations - 20 credits

• Professional and Academic Skills 2 - 10 credits

• Add+vantage – 10 credits

• Optional modules

Final year
The final year continues the above themes and provides a wider choice of options from modules such as quantum mechanics, cryptography, cosmology, and financial maths.

All students have the option to choose either a substantial project (on a mathematical topic with the support of an individual supervisor) or a taught module that involves project-based work.

Modules

• Advanced Algebra and Analysis - 20 credits

• Optimisation - 20 credits

• Project - 20 credits

• Advanced Linear Algebra and its Applications – 10 credits

• Add+vantage – 10 credits

• Optional modules

English language requirements

• IELTS: 6.0 overall, with no component lower than 5.5.

International Fees
£15,950 per year

International Pathways 2022 Scholarship
You could enjoy a £3,000 reduction in tuition fees.
Our high-quality foundation, international year one and pre-masters courses are for international students who do not meet the requirements for direct entry to their preferred Coventry University undergraduate or postgraduate course. We can support you to achieve the academic and/or English grades you need and help you gain the personal and professional skills required to study at university.

We want to encourage ambitious international students like you to study at Coventry University, so we’ve secured extra financial support for you worth £3,000, to help with the cost of tuition fees, living expenses and accommodation.

The scholarship application deadline is:
September 2022 intake: 31 July 2022

Studying maths should develop skills in logical thinking and strategic knowledge, demonstrating to employers your advanced numerical and analytical ability, both of which are rare and in demand on the graduate job market.

A mathematics degree can open a wide range of career opportunities in industry, accountancy, banking, computer analysis, marketing, industrial design, management, and scientific research. You could be employed in a wide variety of roles, for example, as an actuarial analyst, actuary, forensic accountant, operational researcher, research scientist, teacher, statistician, or stockbroker.

For those who combined their studies with Initial Teacher Training, on successful completion of the course, students who wish to continue to become qualified teachers can seek employment with a secondary school and following a year of employment with the school could become eligible as a newly Qualified Teacher.