BSc Mathematics with Physics (Including Foundation Year)
Our BSc Mathematics with Physics (including foundation year) is open to Home and EU students. It will be suitable for you if your academic qualifications do not yet meet our entrance requirements for the three-year version of this course and you want a programme that increases your subject knowledge as well as improves your English language and academic skills.
This four-year course includes a foundation year (Year Zero), followed by a further three years of study. During your Year Zero, you study four academic subjects relevant to your chosen course as well as a compulsory English language and academic skills module.
You are an Essex student from day one, a member of our global community based at the most internationally diverse campus university in the UK.
After successful completion of Year Zero in our Essex Pathways Department, you progress to complete your course with the Department of Mathematical Sciences.
Interactions between mathematics and physics have led to a range of weird and wonderful advances in the sciences, from elementary particle theory to general relativity and non-Euclidean geometry, to the understanding of chaos. At Essex, your ways of thinking will be shifted as we teach you about the cosmos, the symmetries of quarks and the complexities of quantum physics.
On our BSc Mathematics with Physics course you can study a wide range of topics, such as:
- Pure mathematics, including geometry, algebra, analysis and number theory
- Quantum mechanics, electronics and analytical mechanics
- Further applied mathematical topics such cryptography, mathematical modelling, differential equations and dynamical systems
As well as these mathematical topics, your degree will develop your programming skills in languages such as Python, and you will learn to solve sophisticated problems using computational toolkits such as Matlab, Maple and R.
This course can lead to employment opportunities within business, commerce, education, engineering, government service, industry and research as well as from the wider economy.
Our BSc Mathematics with Physics (including foundation year) is open to Home and EU students. It will be suitable for you if your academic qualifications do not yet meet our entrance requirements for the three-year version of this course and you want a programme that increases your subject knowledge as well as improves your English language and academic skills.
This four-year course includes a foundation year (Year Zero), followed by a further three years of study. During your Year Zero, you study four academic subjects relevant to your chosen course as well as a compulsory English language and academic skills module.
You are an Essex student from day one, a member of our global community based at the most internationally diverse campus university in the UK.
After successful completion of Year Zero in our Essex Pathways Department, you progress to complete your course with the Department of Mathematical Sciences.
Interactions between mathematics and physics have led to a range of weird and wonderful advances in the sciences, from elementary particle theory to general relativity and non-Euclidean geometry, to the understanding of chaos. At Essex, your ways of thinking will be shifted as we teach you about the cosmos, the symmetries of quarks and the complexities of quantum physics.
On our BSc Mathematics with Physics course you can study a wide range of topics, such as:
- Pure mathematics, including geometry, algebra, analysis and number theory
- Quantum mechanics, electronics and analytical mechanics
- Further applied mathematical topics such cryptography, mathematical modelling, differential equations and dynamical systems
As well as these mathematical topics, your degree will develop your programming skills in languages such as Python, and you will learn to solve sophisticated problems using computational toolkits such as Matlab, Maple and R.
This course can lead to employment opportunities within business, commerce, education, engineering, government service, industry and research as well as from the wider economy.
