THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2024/2025

Timetable information in the Course Catalogue may be subject to change.

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Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

Notes:
Before selecting your outside courses, please refer to the course selection information at https://teaching.maths.ed.ac.uk/main/undergraduate/getting-started/course-selection-and-timetabling

All compulsory courses 'must be passed' before students are permitted to progress to the next year of the programme. This condition is stated clearly in the information below.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 60 credits in this group.

Maths Y1 Fundamentals

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Choose this course if you do not have Advanced Higher Mathematics or you have Grade C or below (or if you have neither Grade A* in A Level Mathematics nor Grade A in A Level Further Mathematics).
AND

Introduction to Data Science

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
AND

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y

Select between 20 and 60 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y
Notes:
Students must consult course prerequisites and other requirements carefully when making course choices.

Year 2 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Notes:
Some compulsory courses 'must be passed' before students are permitted to progress to the next year of the programme. This condition is stated clearly in the information below.

Continuing Students - Select courses from Group A
Direct Entry Students - Select courses from Group B

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 50 credits in this group.

Maths : Continuing Students

Select exactly 10 credits of the following courses
AND

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y

Notes:
Students must consult course prerequisites and other requirements carefully when making course choices.
OR

Group B

Select exactly 50 credits in this group.

Maths : Direct Entry

Select exactly 30 credits of the following courses
AND

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y

Notes:
Students must consult course prerequisites and other requirements carefully when making course choices.

Year 3 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Notes:
Students are normally required to obtain an average of at least 60% in Year 3 in order to progress to Year 4 of MMath.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 20 credits in this group.

2024 - 25: UTMATHB : Y3 options : SEMESTER 1

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
SEMESTER 1 courses
AND

2024-25: UTMATHB : Y3 options : SEMESTER 2

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
SEMESTER 2 courses
AND

Level 9 and 10 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T and W

Select between 0 and 20 credits from Level 9 and 10 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T and W
Notes:
Students must consult course prerequisites and other requirements carefully when making course choices.

Year 4 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Notes:
1. Students are required to complete either MATH10063 Mathematics Project OR MATH10031 Project in Mathematics (Double) in an agreed area of Applied Mathematics, and to complete a minimum of 60 credits of Applied Mathematics content in total during Year 4.

2. 120 credits of Level 11 Mathematics courses (MATH11XXX) MUST be taken across Years 4 and 5 of study.

Two types of Level 11 course exist: undergraduate and postgraduate. Level 11 courses labelled as postgraduate in the DRPS can only be taken by MMath students:

a) if they are included in the optional courses listed in Collection A of the DPT;

and / or

b) if the 'Prerequisites' and 'Other Requirements' sections of the DRPS course catalogue entry indicate that the course is available to undergraduate as well as postgraduate students.

(Please note that where there are restrictions on the number of places available on a course, students on postgraduate taught programmes will be given priority over undergraduate students.)

3. Students wishing to undertake a non-compulsory Year Abroad in Year 4 should have:

a) achieved 'A' grades in the following courses:

- Introduction to Linear Algebra*
- Proofs and Problem Solving*
- Calculus and its Applications*
- Several Variable Calculus and Differential Equations
- Fundamentals of Pure Mathematics

(* or Direct Entry equivalents - Accelerated Proofs and Problem Solving & Accelerated Algebra and Calculus for Direct Entry)

AND

b) achieved at least 70% in the four Honours courses:

- Honours Analysis
- Honours Differential Equations
- Honours Algebra
- Honours Complex Variables

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Group A

Select between 60 and 120 credits in this group.

2024-25 UTAPMAT Project Options

Select between 20 and 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
The project counts towards the minimum of 60 credits of Applied Mathematics content required in total in Year 4.
AND

2024-25: Applied Mathematics: Y4/5 options : SEMESTER 1 and 2

Select between 20 and 100 credits of the following courses
Notes:
These courses count towards the minimum of 60 credits of Applied Mathematics content required in total in Year 4. Please note these are a mix of undergraduate courses and taught postgraduate courses that can be taken without concession.
AND

Group B

Select between 0 and 60 credits in this group.

2024 - 25 : UTAPMAT : Full Year

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Taking Statistical Case Studies is permissible, but not recommended: SCS and the required project are year-long courses with final deadlines very close together.
AND

2024 -25 : UTAPMAT : Yr4/5 Options : Semester 1

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
AND

2024 - 25 : UTAPMAT : Yr4/5 Options : Semester 2

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
AND

2024 -25 : UTAPMAT : Yr 4/5 : PGT Courses without concession

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Level 10 and 11 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W

Select between 0 and 20 credits from Level 10 and 11 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W
Notes:
Students must consult course prerequisites and other requirements carefully when making course choices.

Year 5 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Notes:
120 credits of Level 11 Mathematics courses (MATH11XXX) MUST be taken across Years 4 and 5 of study.

Two types of Level 11 course exist: undergraduate and postgraduate. Level 11 courses labelled as postgraduate in the DRPS can only be taken by MMath students:

a) if they are included in the optional courses listed in Collection A of the DPT;

and / or

b) if the 'Prerequisites' and 'Other Requirements' sections of the DRPS course
catalogue entry indicate that the course is available to undergraduate as well
as postgraduate students.

(Please note that where there are restrictions on the number of places available on a course, students on postgraduate taught programmes will be given priority over undergraduate students.)

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 70 credits in this group.

2024-25: Applied Mathematics: Y4/5 options : SEMESTER 1 and 2

Select between 10 and 60 credits of the following courses
Notes:
SEMESTER 1 and 2 courses
AND

2024 - 25 : UTAPMAT : Full Year

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Taking Statistical Case Studies is permissible, but not recommended: SCS and the required dissertation are year-long courses with final deadlines very close together.
AND

2024 -25 : UTAPMAT : Yr4/5 Options : Semester 1

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
AND

2024 - 25 : UTAPMAT : Yr4/5 Options : Semester 2

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
AND

2024 -25 : UTAPMAT : Yr 4/5 : PGT Courses without concession

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
These Postgraduate Taught courses may be taken by Undergraduate students *without* requiring a concession. (NB. students on Postgraduate taught programmes are given priority in the allocation of places.)
AND

Level 10 and 11 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W

Select between 0 and 20 credits from Level 10 and 11 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W
Notes:
Students must consult course prerequisites and other requirements carefully when making course choices.

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