UCL Mathematics- how good is it etc?

being a decent London university

just decent?



Anyway, what's a "mathsmo"?

(non-native english speaker here!)

First up - if Maths is the highest paid starter, it's because you're all 4 year students. But I'm not even sure that's true... the medics tend to rinse all that stand before them for starting salary.

First up - if Maths is the highest paid starter, it's because you're all 4 year students. But I'm not even sure that's true... the medics tend to rinse all that stand before them for starting salary.

I'll get the figures and check myself...

Where are you going to get the figures from?

"Only smarties have the answer"



There might be... but I doubt it.

And the highest starting salary for any UCL student is probably Economics, I'm pretty sure no other department has recently put out a graduate who earned over 100k in their first year

so are you glad you studied maths at UCL, praktiv? What would you say are the disadvantages to studying maths at UCL, in regards to other universities (emphasising on teaching, course and reputation) or would you say you are perfectly happy?

I am glad to be studying Maths at UCL, as the course is very good and gives you a good ground in the basics/main areas (as I mentioned in my first post), and you get to live at the very heart of the city, as opposed to somewhere a bit further out such as South Kensington (Imperial), so you have plenty of opportunity for a fulfilling life outside of your studies, which is something I couldn't imagine myself having to such an extent if I'd have gone to IC. Our Maths department has a good reputation and is on the way up, but we're not nearly at the level of Cambridge (which has a truly extraordinary reputation and a very good/unique course). And if I had the choice to go somewhere purely on academics then I would have preferred to study at Cambridge, however I've come to realise that there's more to Uni than just working my arse off. When I applied my backup was Bristol, which has an excellent Maths department as well - probably better than UCL's, but I really just wanted to live in a diverse, vibrant city, so decided to come here.

During your first 1.5 years you have to do compulsory courses, but after that you have a much greater freedom, for example this term I'm doing modules such as Linear Programming & Optimisation, Probability & Statistics and Financial Computing, however these were just some of the courses that took my fancy out of a dozen or more I could pick from. It's nice to be able to follow your own interests after you've been grounded in the most important/fundamental Mathematics. So, on reflection I'd say that I'm very happy to be at UCL - my lecturers are generally speaking very good (they give us good notes, answer our questions well, are very supportive and understanding, etc), the course it to my liking and I love living and studying where I do. Anyhows, I hope this answers your questions.

and just to check- you reckon the average starting salary is £40k for the ucl mathmos?

i am deciding between warwick and ucl for maths, any suggestions?

im not going into academia, maybe not even finance but civil service- maths is just a favourite subject.

and just to check- you reckon the average starting salary is £40k for the ucl mathmos?

i am deciding between warwick and ucl for maths, any suggestions?

im not going into academia, maybe not even finance but civil service- maths is just a favourite subject.

pratikv, see you at the 8am lecture tomorrow morning

Bear in mind, something like Financial Computing is very cool. You get taught finance and some computing (funnily enough) in a course that is sponsored by Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank (how nice of them )