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About the Pathway
Specific A Level Entry Requirements: Mathematics
Lancaster is one of the UK's major centres in mathematics and statistics and has earned a well-deserved reputation for top-quality teaching and world-class research.
For more information, please read our guide on how Pathways work. The following modules are for entry year 2025.
Single Mathematics
Specific A Level Entry Requirements: Mathematics
This Pathway allows you to continue your study of maths at degree level in a top-ranking department. You’ll focus on both pure mathematics and statistics with an emphasis on solving practical mathematical problems.
| Year One | Year Two | Year Three |
|---|---|---|
| Core modules | Optional modules | Optional modules |
| Calculus | Abstract Algebra | Algebraic Curves |
| Further Calculus | Computational Mathematics | Bayesian Interference |
| Linear Algebra | Linear Algebra II | Combinatorics |
| Probability | Probability II | Commutative Algebra |
| Statistics | Statistics II | Financial Mathematics |
| Computational Statistics | Geometry of Curves and Surfaces | |
| Computational Modelling | Generalised Linear Models | |
| Graph Theory | ||
| Groups and Symmetry | ||
| Likelihood Inference | ||
| Machine Learning | ||
| Mathematical Education | ||
| Medical Statistics | ||
| Number Theory | ||
| Representation Theory of Finite Groups | ||
| Stochastic Processes |
Double Mathematics
Specific A Level Entry Requirements: Mathematics
Double Weighted Pathway: If you wish to focus your studies on mathematics, we also offer a double-weighted pathway that allows you to study the subject in greater detail. This incorporates the modules listed above and gives students the opportunity to concentrate on theoretical problems. As a double-weighted Pathway, you can only take one other Pathway with this option.
| Year One | Year Two | Year Three |
|---|---|---|
| Core modules | Optional modules | Optional modules |
| As for Single Mathematics, plus: | As for Single Mathematics, plus: | As for Single Mathematics, plus: |
| Convergence and Continuity | Complex Analysis | Differential Equations |
| Discrete Mathematics | Dynamics and Analysis Projects | Hilbert Space |
| Geometry and Calculus | Real Analysis | Lebesgue Integration |
| Integration and Differentiation | Computational Mathematics | Linear Systems |
| Numbers and Relations | Computational Statistics | Metric Spaces |
| Computational Modelling | Probability Theory | |
| Geometry and Algebra Projects | ||
| Modelling and Probability Projects | ||
| Discrete Mathematics and Computing Projects |
To study on any particular Pathway you must meet the entry requirements of that subject. Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and some which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme to complement your main specialism.
Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, and the University will make every reasonable effort to offer modules as advertised. In some cases changes may be necessary and may result in some combinations being unavailable, for example as a result of student feedback, timetabling, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes and new research. Not all optional modules are available every year.