Intro

Integrating maths with a thorough grounding in business, our accredited course is created in collaboration with industry experts. It blends theory and real-world practice equipping you with the skills to effectively apply your knowledge to industry and commerce.

Covering key mathematical concepts and their practical application, two-thirds of the course concentrates on developing your mathematical abilities and a third is taught by specialists from our Business School focusing on business with elements of economics and finance.

Supported by your lecturers and fellow students you develop research, evaluation, strategy-planning, resource management, communication and presentation skills, learning to produce realistic solutions to practical business problems. You will develop your understanding of technical maths and the ability to communicate complex ideas in a clear way to non-specialists.

You will build your analytical and problem-solving abilities using logic and creativity, working with sophisticated mathematical and statistical software such as Maple, MATLAB, SPSS, Lindo, R and SAS.

Key facts

Location Brighton: Moulsecoomb

UCAS code G1N1

Full-time 3 years
With placement year 4 years

Accredited by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

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Course content

Course structure

There are three main subject areas: core mathematical skills including algebra and calculus; mathematical topics including statistics and its applications; and business-related modules in marketing, finance and economics.

Making sure that what you learn with us is relevant, up to date and what employers are looking for is our priority, so courses are reviewed and enhanced on an ongoing basis. When you have applied to us, you’ll be told about any new developments through Student View.

Our mathematics department has SAS Academy status. SAS is one of the largest providers of business analytics software in the world. Academy status gives our students the opportunity to meet SAS customers and their industry partners at careers fairs, to train in skills needed by a wide range of companies and organisations, and to be prepared for SAS certification exams.

Year 1

You will study areas including: core mathematical principles and techniques, statistics, business economics, financial knowledge and skills for business.

Modules

Discrete Mathematics

This module introduces some of the fundamental concepts of discrete mathematics, including mathematical structures. You'll engage with the subject by exploring a set of topics and communicate the results using the language of mathematics.
Continuous Mathematics

The module introduces basic mathematical culture and fundamental concepts in continuous mathematics. You'll explore topics including functions of real variable, notion of continuity and limit, differentiation and optimisation, and advanced methods of calculus, and present your results in a clear and appropriate way.
Linear Algebra and Calculus

This module introduces abstract concepts of linear algebra and applies them to range of different mathematical problems. Rigorous consideration of elementary examples will allow you to develop your understanding of the general common principles that underlie many real-world applications ranging from solving differential equations to computer graphics.
Introduction to Statistics

This module introduces you to statistical and probability concepts and their real-world applications. Software packages such as SPSS and Microsoft Excel will be used to provide you with a grounding in industry appropriate statistical software. You will gain the skills required to apply statistics to real data sets together with the appropriate theory behind the applications.
Business Economics

In this module you will develop your understanding of key economic concepts by applying them to contemporary issues within the world of business and through the application of quantitative techniques. You will also gain an understanding of how political, economic and environmental factors influence the world of business.
Financial Knowledge and Skills for Business

This module provides you with an introduction to fundamental concepts in the fields of financial accounting, management accounting, and finance. You will develop a basic understanding of an organisation’s financial position and performance through the application of appropriate analytical tools and procedures.

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Year 2

In your second year, you deepen your knowledge of core maths and statistics, and study international business analysis and information systems management. You will also choose additional topics from our option modules.

Modules

Further Calculus
Linear Mathematics
Applied Linear Statistical Models
International Business Analysis
Digital Marketing

Options*

Numerical Methods
Analysis and Algebra
Operational Research
Mathematical Methods for Statistical Practice

*Option modules are indicative and may change, depending on timetabling and staff availability.

Placement year

You have the option of a year’s paid placement after your second year where you will spend a year working in a professional environment. It’s a great way to build on the skills you have developed on your course and to gain new ones. Our placements team can help you to find the job for you, and you will also have the support of one of our lecturers while on placement so you keep in touch with university.

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Final year

You will choose from option modules in pure mathematics, applied mathematics, statistics and applications in areas such as financial management, understanding employee relations, digital marketing and social enterprise.

Option modules*

Mathematical Sciences Project
Mathematics of Finance
Mathematics Education: Research and Experience
Numerical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations
Historical, Social and Philosophical Perspectives on Maths
Methods of Machine Learning
Topics in Abstract Algebra
Graph Theory and Applications
Optimisation Methods
Statistical Modelling
Time Series and Forecasting
Stochastic Methods
Extended Mathematical Sciences Project
Complex Analysis
Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Social Enterprise: New Business Planning
Game Theory in Economics, Finance and Business
Financial Management
E-commerce and Online Behaviour
Understanding Employee Relations

*Option modules are indicative and may change, depending on timetabling and staff availability.

How this course is delivered

How will my course be taught?
For the academic year that starts in September 2022 we’re planning for all students to be taught face-to-face on campus, enhanced by some online learning.

Students who started their course with us in 2021 are on campus for some face-to-face learning including tutorials, workshops, laboratory classes and studio sessions. They are also taking part in off-campus learning activities such as placements, field trips and study visits. And all of our campus facilities – libraries, learning spaces, restaurants, gyms and more are open.

Like all universities we are following government guidance and we are monitoring the pandemic very closely. Should Public Health advise it we have robust plans in place for additional safety measures to be introduced to enable everyone to continue learning on campus, and, as a last resort, for students to continue their learning remotely.

We will update you regularly on our teaching plans for the next academic year as you progress your application with us.

When does my course start?
The 2022 academic year begins on Monday 26 September 2022. Teaching for most courses starts the following week.

Many education courses, some health science courses including Medicine, and some postgraduate business courses have an earlier start date. Check your offer letter for the start date of your course.

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Careers

Professional accreditation

Our Mathematics with Finance BSc(Hons) is accredited by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and meet the educational requirements of Chartered Mathematician (CMath). After you graduate you can go on to become a Chartered Mathematician once you gain the relevant experience and complete the required extra study.

Becoming a Chartered Mathematician means your skills, experience and professionalism as a mathematician are recognised. This can give you an advantage when it comes to finding a job and negotiating a salary as employers can be assured of your expertise and skills set.

Prepare for your career

We focus on employability so that you gain knowledge and skills employers look for. You have the opportunity to:

Develop technical maths expertise and learn how to apply it in business contexts
Build softer and transferable skills in
- Team and independent working
- Communicating complex and technical information
- Presenting
- Problem solving
Gain classroom experience if you are considering becoming a maths teacher
Meet people working in the field and hear from our graduates about their experiences at our annual Mathematics Futures conference

Placement

You can do a year’s work placement between year 2 and your final year. There are many advantages of a placement, you can

put theory into practice in a real workplace
gain new skills which can help in your career
explore career options, think about what you don’t want to do as well as what you do
boost your confidence and organisational skills
build your network of professional contacts
come back for your final year more focused, more organised and more confident.

Our students have been on placement in organisations including:

BMW
Johnson Controls
Roche
The Office for National Statistics

Industry/Professional links

Our courses are underlined by close contact with industry through our advisory board and our alumni who contribute to the ongoing development of the courses. This helps us to ensure your learning reflects industry needs.

Computing and Maths advisory board members:

BT • FDM Group • Innovation Partners • Lighthouse Systems • NHS Business Services Authority • River Red Software • SAS • Society of Data Miners • The Purpose Lab

The Paxton Scholarship, open to computing, maths, engineering and product design students, offers three scholarships a year worth £10,000 and a three-month paid placement at the Brighton technology company.

Supporting you

Students and lecturers get to know each other well in a supportive and friendly learning environment.

Our open-door policy means you can come and see the lecturers if you need help with your academic studies or other support. You will have a personal tutor who you can talk to about your overall academic and personal welfare.

Your student support and guidance tutor (SSGTs) is here to help you with everything from homesickness to managing stress or accommodation issues.

Peer assisted study sessions (PASS) are a student-led initiative where you can discuss any issues related to course materials and student life in a friendly, informal environment. You can sign up to become a PASS leader yourself in your second and third year and help others and gain some great training and experience.

Graduate destinations

Our maths degrees develop hard and soft skills and can lead to a diverse range of jobs.

Graduates are working for organisations including Lloyds Bank, Roche, BMW, Sainsbury’s headquarters, British Airways and J.P. Morgan, and other have gone to careers in teaching.

You can go on to study at a postgraduate level with us on our Data Analytics MSc course, or study a PGCE qualification if you are interested in teacher training.

Supporting your employability

Outside of your course, our Careers Service is here to support you as you discover (and re-discover) your strengths and what matters to you. We are here for you throughout your university journey as you work towards a fulfilling and rewarding career.

Connect with our careers team

Find part-time work that you can combine with your studies.
Find, or be, a mentor or get involved with our peer-to-peer support scheme.
Develop your business ideas through our entrepreneurial support network.
Get professional advice and support with career planning, CV writing and interview top tips.
Meet potential employers at our careers fairs.
Find rewarding volunteering opportunities to help you discover more about what makes you tick, and build your CV.

Whatever your career needs, we are here to help. And that's not just while you are a student, our support carries on after you've graduated.

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Entry criteria

Entry requirements

A-levels or BTEC
Entry requirements are in the range of A-level ABB–BCC (128–104 UCAS Tariff points), or BTEC Extended Diploma DDM–DMM. Our conditional offers typically fall within this range.

A-levels must include maths. BTEC must include maths content.

International Baccalaureate
26 points, with three subjects at Higher level. Higher level subjects must include maths at grade 5.

Access to HE Diploma
Pass with 60 credits overall. Level 3 maths units required. At least 45 credits at level 3, with 24 credits at merit or above.

Foundation degree/HND
May enable you to start the course in year 2 or 3. HNC may also count towards direct entry.

Studied before or got relevant experience?
A qualification, HE credits or relevant experience may count towards your course at Brighton, and could mean that you do not have to take some elements of the course or can start in year 2 or 3.

English language requirements
IELTS 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each element. Find out more about the other English qualifications that we accept.

International requirements and visas

International requirements by country
Country name
Albania
Algeria
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Belarus
Belgium
Bermuda
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burma (Myanmar)
Cameroon
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Ecuador
Egypt
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Guyana
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kosovo
Kuwait
Latvia
Lebanon
Liechtenstein
Libya
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malaysia
Malawi
Malta
Mexico
Moldova
Montenegro
Morocco
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palestinian National Authority
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russian Federation
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
Syria
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Tanzania
Thailand
Tunisia
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United States
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe

We can help you meet our English language or academic entry requirements.

Visit our language centre

For English language preparation courses.

Visit our International College

For degree preparation courses.

Visas and immigration advice

Applying for a student visa

Check out our step-by-step guidance.

Fees

Course fees

UK (full-time) 9,250 GBP

International (full-time) 14,892 GBP

If you choose to take the professional placement (sandwich) year offered on this course you will pay a reduced fee during this year. Our fee for the professional placement year is £1,370 for UK students and £2,120 for international students. This fee may be subject to small increases, in line with inflation.

Included in the course fees: access to university facilities, libraries and equipment relevant to your course.

What's included

You may have to pay additional costs during your studies. The cost of optional activities is not included in your tuition fee and you will need to meet this cost in addition to your fees. A summary of the costs that you may be expected to pay, and what is included in your fees, while studying a course in the School of Architecture, Technology and Engineering in the 2021–22 academic year are listed here.

Travel and accommodation costs are included for all mandatory taught residential field trips, but you’ll need to provide your own food and drink.
There will be opportunities to attend additional study trips or optional taught residential field trips throughout the school, but these are not required to pass your course. Normally, a contribution will be required towards expenses such as travel, entrance fees and accommodation. This will vary depending on where and how long the trip is, but you should budget around £1,500.
Where optional international field trips are offered, these are not required to pass your course. You should expect to budget £300–£500 for these, to cover flight, accommodation, food and entrance to museums. The total amount spent would be based on location and number of trips taken.
If you choose to take an optional paid placement, you’ll be expected to cover your own travel, accommodation, food and drink.
Some students require specialist outdoor equipment and/or personal protective equipment (PPE) and should budget up to £150.
You will have access to computers and necessary software; however, many students choose to buy their own hardware, software and accessories. The amount spent will depend on your individual choices, but this expenditure is not essential to pass any of our courses. Find out what free software is available from the University of Brighton.
Course books are available from the university, but you may wish to budget from £15 to £100 per year to buy your own copies and subscribe to design magazines.
In most cases coursework submissions are electronic but students may wish to print notes which would involve an extra cost.
Costs of up to £50 are included in the fees for students on engineering courses to pay for materials for their final year projects. On rare occasions where material costs exceed £50, they will need to be paid for by the student.

For architecture, interior architecture, design and product design, additional costs are as follow

Students should budget around £25 for printing and binding dissertations in their final year.
In your first year of studies, you will need to buy a drawing and modelling toolkit. Each course will suggest a list of items of which some will be essential, and others optional. You should budget around £100–£250 for these.
For most courses you will need to budget between £100 to £300 per year for printing and portfolio costs. Costs will vary depending on type of printer and type and size of paper used. Some students tend to work digitally, spending more on printing and some by hand, spending more on materials so these costs vary widely between students.
For most courses you will need to budget between £10 and £100 for material costs per design project. Costs will vary depending on how and what you use to make models. You are encouraged to recycle used materials where possible.
You will need to budget between £5–£50 to exhibit work for the end-of-year show. Fundraising by the student society, BIAAS, normally helps towards this cost.

You can chat with our enquiries team if you have a question or need more information. Or check our finance pages for advice about funding and scholarships as well as more information about fees and advice on international and island fee-paying status.

Info

The fees listed here are for full-time courses beginning in the academic year 2022–23.

Further tuition fees are payable for each subsequent year of study and are subject to an annual increase of no more than 5% or RPI (whichever is the greater). The annual increase for UK students, who are subject to regulated fees, will increase no more than the statutory maximum fee.

You can find out more about our fees in the university's student contract and tuition fee policy (pdf).

The tuition fee you have to pay depends on a number of factors including the kind of course you take, and whether you study full-time or part-time. If you are studying part-time you will normally be charged on a pro rata basis depending on the number of modules you take.

Location

Campus where this course is taught

Moulsecoomb campus

Two miles north of Brighton seafront, Moulsecoomb is our largest campus and student village. Over the last four years Moulsecoomb has undergone a major transformation, planned with accessibility, inclusivity and sustainability in mind.

Over 900 students live here in our halls, Moulsecoomb Place and the new Mithras halls – Brunswick, Goldstone, Hanover, Preston and Regency.

On campus you’ll find professional-standard facilities and learning resources for all of our subjects and a brand new academic building Elm House, alongside the library, student centre, fitness facilities and the Students’ Union.

Moulsecoomb has easy access to buses and trains and to all the exciting things happening in our home city.

Accommodation

Brighton: Moulsecoomb

We guarantee an offer of a place in halls of residence to all eligible students who apply by 30 June.

Halls of residence
We have halls of residence across Brighton in the city centre, Moulsecoomb, Varley Park and Falmer.

You'll be prioritised for accommodation in the halls that are linked to your teaching base, subject to availability.
Moulsecoomb campus is linked to Moulsecoomb Place, Mithras halls and Varley Park. All halls are self-catered.
- Varley Park offers a mix of rooms. It is around two miles from Moulsecoomb campus and four miles from the city centre. Public transport in the city is excellent, and there’s a shuttle bus between our Brighton campuses during term time.
- Moulsecoomb Place halls are all self-catered and are located right on campus.

Want to live independently? We can help – find out more about private renting.

Modern accommodation at nearby Varley Halls

Modern accommodation at nearby Varley Park

Relaxing in halls near the campus

Students eating at the Hub

Local area

About Brighton

The city of Brighton & Hove is a forward-thinking place which leads the way in the arts, technology, sustainability and creativity. You'll find living here plays a key role in your learning experience.

Brighton is a leading centre for creative media technology, recently named the startup capital of the UK.

The city is home to a national 5G testbed and over 1,000 tech businesses. The digital sector is worth over £1bn a year to the local economy - as much as tourism.

All of our full-time undergraduate courses involve work-based learning - this could be through placements, live briefs and guest lectures. Many of these opportunities are provided by local businesses and organisations.

It's only 50 minutes by train from Brighton to central London and less than 40 minutes to Eastbourne. There are also daily direct trains to Bristol, Bedford, Cambridge, Gatwick Airport, Portsmouth and Southampton.

Maps

Moulsecoomb campus map

Sport at Brighton

Sport Brighton

Sport Brighton brings together our sport and recreation services. As a Brighton student you'll have use of sport and fitness facilities across all our campuses and there are opportunities to play for fun, fitness or take part in serious competition.

Find out more about Sport Brighton.

Sports scholarships

Our sports scholarship scheme is designed to help students develop their full sporting potential to train and compete at the highest level. We offer scholarships for elite athletes, elite disabled athletes and talented sports performers.

Find out more about sport scholarships.

Cricket Academy

New for September 2023, our Cricket Academy offers aspiring players the opportunity to continue their cricket development alongside studying for a degree. The programme offers a world-class training environment with the highest quality coaching.

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Statistics

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Course and module descriptions on this page were accurate when first published and are the basis of the course. Detailed information on any changes we make to modules and learning and assessment activities will be sent to all students by email before enrolment, so that you have all the information before you come to Brighton.

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Programme specification

The programme specification is the approved description of each course. They give a detailed breakdown of the content and structure of the course, and are updated following course changes.

Programme specification