MSc in Mathematical Sciences and MMath in Mathematics Handbook (2025-26)

4. The Masters Course

The Oxford Masters in Mathematical Sciences aims:

to provide an internationally competitive mathematical education of excellent quality through a course which attracts students of the highest mathematical potential;
to provide such within a framework that is inclusive of the broad and interdisciplinary applications of mathematics as well as recognising the fundamental questions and themes of mathematics itself;
to provide the foundations for graduate study through a research degree at a leading global university;
to provide a learning environment which encourages and challenges the students to reach their full potential, personally and academically, by drawing on the expertise of the staff in teaching and research;
to foster the advanced thinking, abstraction, problem-solving, mathematical modelling, technical and presentation skills widely sought in a range of careers, including varied academic roles across many mathematical and scientific disciplines;
to offer an opportunity to individually investigate an advanced topic of mathematics, statistics or a mathematically related topic, and in writing a dissertation that address the challenges of communicating, presenting and organizing such a report.