All include the requirement of grade A in Maths A-level. For single-subject MMath (G102) and BSc (G100, G101 and GG13) candidates, the typical offer is:

• AAA in three A-levels, or
• AABa including an additional grade 'a' in Further Maths AS-level, or
• AAB including Further Maths (full) A-level.

For the remainder of the offer the department accepts all (including vocational) A-level subjects, with the following exceptions:

• General Studies and Critical Thinking A-levels are welcome additional qualifications, but may not be included in satisfying the offer;
• Modern Foreign Languages taken by native speakers are also excluded from the offer.

Selection policy

Our sole criterion for admission is mathematical talent and the potential to benefit from, and succeed in, the degree course at York.

We do not make offers on tariff points, set requirements on individual module marks or on the A* grade, or forbid resits.

We do not normally interview applicants. Rather you will be invited, after an offer has been made, to come to one of our Visit Days - these are usually held on Wednesdays from January to March.

Mathematics content

All degree programmes take as their assumed background the single-subject core (modules C1-C4) of Mathematics A-level. Offers made on non-A-level qualifications will generally have two components: first, a grade indicating mastery of this core material, and, second, a high level of general school-leaving qualification.

Further Mathematics

We encourage applicants to take Further Maths (FM) AS- or A-level wherever available. Such applicants will find some familiar material in the first term of our degree programme, but generally not thereafter. Beyond such encouragement, however, we do not use the taking of Further Mathematics as a selection criterion. You are just as likely to receive an offer if you are taking only a single Mathematics A-level.

Advanced Extension (AEA) and STEP papers

We do not make offers which explicitly include Advanced Extension Award (AEA) or Sixth-Term Examination Papers (STEP), but we value greatly the additional mathematical maturity and problem-solving ability which they develop. We normally expect to admit applicants who, in August, have narrowly missed our offer but have performed well in such papers.

Other issues

You may indicate in your application through UCAS that you wish to defer entry for a year. We welcome such applicants, and suitably qualified mature applicants (those aged 21 or over).

If you are applying for Mathematics with a Year in Europe, G101, then there is an additional requirement of competency in the foreign language.

All teaching in the Department is in English. Overseas candidates whose first language is not English will be required to pass IELTS at grade 6.5 with no less than 6.0 in each unit (or TOEFL equivalent).

See also: our Frequently-Asked Questions page