MSc Pure Mathematics

For entry in the academic year beginning September 2026, the tuition fees are as follows:

• MSc (full-time)
  UK students (per annum): £14,700
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £36,300
• MSc (part-time)
  UK students (per annum): £7,400
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £14,700

Further information for EU students can be found on our dedicated EU page.

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).

The Martingale Foundation helps provide access to postgraduate mathematics study for UK students facing financial barriers by offering fully-funded MSc and PhD programmes. Find more information on the Martingale Foundation website . The deadline is Sunday 19 October 2025.

Our Manchester Master's Bursaries are aimed at widening access to master's courses by removing barriers to postgraduate education for students from underrepresented groups.

We also welcome the best and brightest international students each year and reward excellence with a number of merit-based scholarships. See our range of master’s scholarships for international students .

If you have completed or are in the final year of an undergraduate degree at The University of Manchester, you may be eligible for a discount of 10% on tuition fees for postgraduate study. Find out if you're eligible and how to apply .

For more information on master's tuition fees and studying costs, visit the University of Manchester funding for master's courses website.

“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it” - Robert Swan, Author

“We have 12 years to save the planet” - United Nations

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)are a call from the United Nations for all countries to tackle, by 2030, the global challenges faced by humanity. The SDGs cover a wide range of challenges, with 17 goals backed up by 169 indicators. The goals include poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice. The SDGs are designed for everyone to be able to play their part, including The University of Manchester and you, our students.

This online unit will equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to address the SDGs. It presents the concept of sustainable development and explains the basis of partnership working that underpins the SDG approach. Each SDG is explored through its own module, drawing on cutting-edge research carried out by world-leading experts across the University of Manchester, together with input from external experts and international policy-makers and practitioners.

If we are to successfully achieve the SDGs by 2030, then we need to be able to work across traditional disciplines and in more collaborative ways. This unit offers a unique opportunity to engage with multiple real-world challenges and develop applied knowledge and skill-sets that are highly prized by employers from the public, private and third sectors.

The unit is available for 15 credits. It is delivered online via Blackboard. We will have online seminars via discussion boards and there will be live (optional and recorded) additional lectures. Our learning is highly interactive and adopts a blend of approaches including video inputs, discussion space and case studies. Students will have a choice of assessment formats. We use the SDGs as pedagogy, so work in partnership respecting diverse knowledges and leaving nobody behind. Our collaborative interdisciplinary lens brings new light to old problems of sustainable development whilst enriching your learning. Throughout the course we will invite you to construct the learning going forward which will effect change for sustainable development through your expertise.

On successful completion of the unit you will be able to:

• Describe the key interlinked, interdisciplinary concepts and theories that underpin sustainable development, as presented by the SDGs

• Analyse diverse ways in which sustainable development plays out across different
spaces and scales, including policy spheres, everyday lives, and infrastructures

• Identify and defend your own social positioning in the world and feel empowered to make positive change

• Apply your knowledge to a specific problem, devise an action plan and communicate this in a well-argued report