Mathematics King's College London

Overview

The Mathematics program from King's College London equips you with a highly sought-after skillset, enabling you to apply creative and deductive thinking to a range of exciting careers, including in emerging technologies such as big data and AI.

In your first and second years, you'll cover core subjects like calculus, algebra, probability and statistics. From your second year onwards, you can choose to specialise in specific areas or explore a broad range of subjects. Our third-year options are extensive, ranging from pure mathematics to financial mathematics, and from statistics to theoretical physics. In your third year you can also choose to apply your learning across three years by tackling a dissertation aligned to your interests, benefiting from close supervision by one of our world-leading experts.

Key Benefits

• 8th in the UK for Mathematics (QS and Times Higher Education subject rankings 2025).
• Wide choice of modules taught by renowned experts across everything from statistics and probability, to financial mathematics and data science, to algorithms and AI, and biological mathematics.
• Our graduates are highly employable, entering into careers that include banking, consultancy, accountancy, healthcare, government and management.
• 6th in the UK for producing the most employable graduates (Times Higher Education Graduate Employability rankings 2025).
• Central location puts you close to the heart of the business and financial world in the City of London.

Employability

A degree in mathematics is one of the most flexible qualifications you can obtain, and as a result our graduates are among the best paid and the least likely to be unemployed. Many of our mathematics graduates become statisticians, actuaries, scientists, accountants, or go into careers in life sciences or the City. There is also considerable demand for graduates of mathematics in the teaching. 

The Mathematics programme is offered at King's College London.