Benefit from our excellent industry links providing opportunities for 'real life' dissertations and valuable work experience in the UK and abroad.
Research expertise
Students are taught and supervised by our research active staff, who will offer guidance and advice on an individual basis.
Enhanced employability
We offer a wide selection of optional modules to choose from, and plenty of opportunities for you to develop the professional skills that employers are looking for.
Acquire a range of in-demand skills for extracting and handling ‘big data’ and develop your practical skills through exposure to real-world problems and datasets.
Our MSc Mathematics delves into the fascinating, challenging and elegant world of mathematics; taking your skillset and knowledge base from a BSc in Mathematics (or similar) towards a point where you can embark on original research in pure and applied mathematics.
This programme is designed to equip you with the necessary analytical skills, methods and ways of thinking to tackle and analyse complex organisational problems, help make better decisions and become confident statistical analysts.
Research in this area spans: Wave propagation in inhomogeneous media; Homogenisation; Fluid mechanics; Structural and solid mechanics; Numerical analysis and scientific computing; Applied mathematical modelling; Memory effects; Inverse problems; Integral transforms.
Research in this area spans: Modelling of traffic flow; Healthcare modelling; Modelling of the spread of infectious diseases; Queueing theory; Scheduling and timetabling problems; Metaheuristics; Discrete optimisation.
Research in this area spans: Multivariate statistical analysis; Time series analysis; Statistical modelling in market research; Optimal experimental design; Stochastic global optimisation; Change point detection; Probabilistic methods in search and number theory; Fisheries; Medical statistics; Random fields; Mathematical finance.
Research in this area spans: Ordinary and partial differential equations; Functional analysis; Analytical and computational spectral theory; Quantum mechanics; Number theory and its applications; Mathematical physics; Operator algebras; Algebraic geometry.
The course was challenging, engaging and provided a mix of theoretical understanding and practical tools to begin my career in operational research. I spent the summer completing my dissertation at the University of Twente (Netherlands) working on a scheduling problem with a hospital partner. This was a very rewarding experience and gave me an excellent opportunity to use my new skills, tackling a real world problem. After such a positive experience with Cardiff University, I am now studying for my PhD, working in partnership with a local health board to use patient level data to inform decision making.
Sam Luen-English, MSc Operational Research and Applied Statistics, graduate
Benefit from the latest findings, knowledge and thinking on your course from our research-led academics, whose research has proven to demonstrate the impact mathematical sciences has on everyday life.
Our research extends across analysis and differential equations, applied mathematics, mathematical physics, operational research and statistics.
Data Science Academy
A number of our MSc degrees are taught at the Data Science Academy which was established to respond to the demand for highly-skilled and employable graduates in areas including data science.
By working together with industry, we aim to expose students to a broad range of techniques for understanding data and use these to apply cutting-edge analytical methodologies to a range of real-world problems.
International postgraduate students are guaranteed a single occupancy room in accommodation for the standard academic year, providing certain deadlines are met.
