School of Mathematical Sciences UG Student Handbook 2024/25

Your degree programme is initially the same as the course for which Queen Mary accepted you. Our study programme guide specifies what modules you must take. Some details of your current study programme are also encoded in MySIS and limit the options available to you. 

Provided you meet all the programme requirements, including those not encoded in MySIS, you can choose your optional or elective modules freely, subject to the approval. We may allow you to change your degree programme, but all such changes require careful consideration and formal approval. You must follow the procedures below and complete a Queen Mary Change of Programme of Study form, which is available from the Maths School Office, Student Enquiry Centre, room CB02 in the Queens' Building, and on the web. If this form is not completed and returned to the Maths School Office, then you will not have changed your degree programme. All change of programme forms will need to be approved by your Advisor and new programme director.

During the first two weeks of each semester, students on certain programmes of study are able to modify their choice of modules by reselecting your choices in MySIS. MySIS is the website you used to pre-enrol and is a portal to your student record. It shows you your personal details, such as addresses and finance, as well as your overall module results.

You are encouraged to register for your modules as soon as possible as popular modules may quickly fill up. You can find out how to change your modules on the Student Enquiry Centre website (http://www.arcs.qmul.ac.uk/students/study/module-registration/index.html).

Students may be permitted to change programmes in the first two weeks of the academic year.  There may be restrictions as to whether this is permissible if students fail to meet the entry criteria or have failed to undertake core and compulsory modules.  Some changes will continue to be permitted at later points in the academic year, for example where students wish to transfer onto or off of a programme that includes a period in industry/overseas.

How do I change to a different Mathematical Sciences degree programme?

1. Complete a Change of Programme of Study form and obtain your Advisor's signature.
2. Take the completed form to the programme director of the proposed new programme (whose name is shown at the top of the programme in our study programme guide). If the programme director accepts the change then leave the form with the programme director, who will also sign the bottom of the front of the form (by your Advisor's signature) and then forward it to the Education Services Team to complete the processing.

Transferring between BSc and MSci

We do not recommend this for overseas students who begin their programme in 2016 or later because new UKVI rules mean that it may cause visa difficulties.

We invite home BSc students on appropriate programmes at the end of their first or second years who have obtained a first-class average to transfer to the corresponding four-year MSci programme. We may also allow BSc students who have obtained an upper second-class average to transfer to the MSci programme at their request. Transfer to MSci may be possible up to the start of your third year provided you have taken appropriate modules in your BSc programme.

An MSci candidate who fails the MSci progression requirements will be automatically transferred to G100 or the relevant joint BSc programme, but may then be allowed to transfer to a different but related BSc programme. An MSci candidate may also opt to transfer to a BSc degree course, which has lower progression requirements, at any time up to the start of the third year of study. Later transfer to BSc may also be possible but will need approval by the Registry. If you are an MSci candidate and you fail to obtain enough credits for the award of an MSci then we may consider you for a BSc degree.

How do I change to a degree programme run by another School?

1. Visit the School that runs the degree programme you want to transfer to and discuss it with them. If they agree to the change then complete a Change of Programme of Study form.
2. Take the completed form to the Education Services Team for Mathematical Sciences for approval of your release from the School of Mathematical Sciences and inform your Advisor.
3. Take the completed form to the other School and follow their procedure for approving a change of study programme. They may require you to return the form to the Registry yourself.