Postgraduate Courses

The university has about 20,000 students in total with nearly 4% of these enrolled in PhD and Masters programmes. The Department of Mathematics and Statistics has a strong postgraduate programme and has an international reputation for academic excellence and achievement. The Department has strong research programmes in the areas of combinatorics, graph theory, discrete optimization, applied mathematics, numerical analysis, operations research, probability theory and statistics. Some of the research projects of the school attract external competitive research funding and consultation funding.

Research and Postgraduate Courses available:

• Master of Philosophy (Mathematics) by Research [Handbook entry]
• Master of Quantitative Finance [Handbook entry]
• Master of Science (Actuarial & Financial Science) [Handbook entry]
• Master of Science – School of Science and Computing
  • Industrial Modelling and Optimisation Major (Master of Science)
  • Mathematical Sciences Major (Master of Science)
• Postgraduate Diploma in Science – School of Science and Computing
  • Industrial Modelling and Optimisation Major (Postgraduate Diploma)
  • Mathematical Sciences Major (Postgraduate Diploma)
• Doctor of Philosophy by Research [Handbook entry]

Studies for MSc by Thesis or PhD may commence at any time of the year and there is no deadline for applications. All other graduate programmes involve some coursework and thus commence at the start of the academic year.

There is a Postgraduate Coordinator who is responsible for all the graduate programmes offered by the Department.