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Undergraduates
You are probably already thinking about your career choices after you leave university. This is exciting but can also be nerve-wracking, unless you’re one of the few who have planned their career even before arriving at university. Perhaps you only have a vague idea of what you want to do, or perhaps you have no idea at all, having chosen to take a maths-based degree simply because you were good at, and enjoyed maths at school or college.
What's in a maths-based degree?
What degree to take at university is an important decision, and it can be a difficult one. Even if you know that you would like to do something related to maths, you still have to decide exactly what kind of degree it should be.
Finding a job
Leaving university and starting work may seem like a daunting prospect, but it is also a time of excitement and challenge.
What do maths and stats graduates do?
Some degrees are very vocational and train you in a particular skill or trade that you need to pursue a particular career.
Postgraduate study
Although many people are keen to get straight into the job market, there are some very good reasons, including financial ones, to head back to university for further study.
Postgraduate opportunities
On this page you will find some of the postgraduate opportunities currently offered by universities and other institutions in the United Kingdom and abroad.
Maths matters
A series of short case studies describing modern mathematics research, produced by the IMA and funded by EPSRC.
Who employs mathematicians?
Maths graduates may not always be aware of the various employment opportunities available to them. This page offers a list of employer websites divided into several categories.
Events, courses and competitions
This page offers information on upcoming STEM events, courses, and competitions.
Advice from employers to mathematical sciences students
A series of videos produced by www.wideangles.tv as part of the Curriculum Impact project based in the School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London.
High jump and pole vault
The high jump and pole vault require the athlete to get as far off the ground as they can to clear horizontal bars. In both cases they get a running start. However, to look at the maths behind their sport, you need to look at how high they can jump from a standing start.
Sweet spot
You don't need to be a professional sportsperson to work out where the sweet spot is located – you can do it with maths.
Weighing the world
Find out how the world was weighed, through mathematics, on a soggy mountain in Scotland.
Non-Newtonian fluids
When stressed, this class of fluids begin to behave very strangely indeed: they can get thicker or thinner, some instantly and some over time.
Why don't we see in X-rays?
Visible light is the radiation the Sun generates most prolifically. It is also the radiation that our atmosphere hinders least. It is no surprise that the majority of eyes have evolved to be sensitive to the most abundant light around.
Universities currently offering Maths degrees
A list of Universities currently offering mathematics as an undergraduate subject.
The price is right – for everyone
It's the aim of every business to maximise profit, but figuring out how to do so can be difficult.
Restoring features, repairing lives
We often think of plastic surgery as nothing more than celebrities getting nose jobs and facelifts, but plastic surgeons also perform reconstructive surgery to treat patients with severe injuries or burns.
Problem with a capital P
Wouldn't life be so much simpler if solving a problem was as easy as checking the answer fits?
Cutting down on crime
Crime is a problem everywhere, and especially in big cities, but why are some areas more at risk than others?
Trouble in coral city
Underwater coral reefs are often mistaken for rocks or plants, but in fact they're made up of millions of tiny animals called polyps.
How round is your money?
The British 50p coin has a rather unusual shape. Like a circle, it has a fixed diameter, but clearly it isn’t as round as a circle. However, it is rounder than a regular heptagon, which has straight sides. So, just how round is it?
Quantum computation
Down beneath everything we know lies another world. A world where nothing is forever, nothing is impossible, and nothing is certain.
Careers: actuary, risk manager
How can businesses and individuals plan for the future without knowing what’s round the corner?
Origamaths
Origami is more than just folding bits of paper – this Japanese art can solve equations and save lives.
