DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2025/2026

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.

Please note that, for students who are in Year 1 in 2025/26, subsequent Years' DPTs will differ from those displayed here. In particular, new courses will be delivered for Year 2 in 2026/27. Please see 'Year 2 Course Choices' on the Learn 'Getting started with your Maths Degree (2025-26)' page for further information.

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

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

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

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.)