Our courses
We are ranked Top 20 in the UK for Mathematics (in The Guardian League Table 2024 and the Complete University Guide 2024). Our courses in mathematics combine high-quality teaching delivered by staff who are experts in their field, state-of-the-art learning resources and facilities with opportunities to grow your professional skills. All our courses give a solid grounding in the fundamentals of mathematics, but allow for additional specialism in areas such as statistics or mathematical finance.
Why choose Loughborough?
Highly rated
We're ranked Top-20 in the UK for Mathematics in The Guardian University Guide 2024.
Employability-boosting placements
All our courses offer the option to take an employability-boosting professional placement year - a great way to gain on-the-job experience in a real role with real responsibilities. A year spent applying your learning in an industrial, commercial or research context gives you invaluable work experience to strengthen your CV and can even introduce you to your future employer.
Assisted by a dedicated placement tutor and the University's Careers Network, our students have found placements with a wide range of reputable organisations.
Recent placement destinations have included: Accenture, GSK, Disney (Paris), Deloitte, Rolls-Royce, EY, IBM, Jaguar Land Rover, L'Oreal, and the Bank of England.
Alternatively, you can use your placement year to study abroad with one of our partner institutions; spend six months on placement and six months studying abroad; or even do a self-employed placement as part of our 'year in enterprise' scheme - the choice is yours.
Exciting career opportunities
We aim to help you develop skills in logical thinking, problem-solving, team working and decision-making as part of your degree, giving you a flying start in your career.
Our mathematics graduates have gone on to rewarding careers with employers such as KPMG, National Audit Office, Barclays, Dorset Software, PWC, Aon, Bloomberg, Experian, The Bank of England, EY-Global - with an average salary of £31,000 per year 15 months post-graduation.*
*Graduate Outcomes Survey (2021-2022 graduates, 15 months post-graduation)
Excellent facilities and support
The Department of Mathematical Sciences is based in the recently refurbished Schofield Building, boasting dedicated resources for mathematics students and modern lecture theatres, working areas and seminar rooms. In addition, you will also benefit from our co-location with Loughborough University's Mathematics Learning Support Centre, providing a wide range of printed and online resources, computing facilities, and drop-in one-to-one and remote support with mathematics and statistics from members of our academic staff.
