Our MSc Optimisation and Data Analytics will appeal if your first degree included mathematics as its major subject. We expect you to have prior knowledge of statistics – for example significance testing or basic statistical distributions – and operational research such as linear programming.Businesses, organisations, and individuals all strive to work as effectively as possible. Operational research uses advanced statistical and analytical methods to help improve the complex decision-making processes to deliver a product or service. Working in this field, you might be identifying future needs for a business, evaluating the time-life value of a customer, or carrying out computer simulations for airlines. Our interdisciplinary research recognises that mathematics, including what can be very abstract mathematics, is an essential part of research in many other disciplines.Our School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science has an international reputation in many areas including semi-group theory, optimisation, probability, applied statistics, bioinformatics and mathematical biology.We are genuinely innovative and student-focused. Our research groups are working on a broad range of collaborative areas tackling real-world issues.