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    Cardiff University

    Financial Mathematics with a Professional Placement Year

    BSc (Hons), 4 years

    Typical offer rate

    95–100%

    high entry

    Typical entry

    BBC

    AAB

    Grad employment

    89%

    15 months after

    In professional roles

    75%

    Median grad salary

    £29,500

    15 months after

    Cardiff University's financial mathematics degree runs over four years with a year in the workplace; the placement is what the extra year adds. The academic core studies probability, stochastic calculus and the mathematical methods applied to financial modelling and risk. Offers are made around BBC at A-level.

    How hard is it to get in?

    The typical applicant to Financial Mathematics with a Professional Placement Year at Cardiff University has a 95–100% chance of an offer, high by UK standards. Most offers are made around BBC at A-level. That baseline is course-typical. Your own chance depends on your grades, subjects and the rest of your profile.

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    Entry requirements

    • Typical A-level grades: BBC
    • AAB
    • BBB

    About Cardiff University

    Cardiff is the Russell Group university in the Welsh capital, one of the larger and longer-established in Wales, with a strong research record across the sciences and humanities.

    Full details and how to apply are on the university's official course page: Cardiff University · Financial Mathematics with a Professional Placement Year

    Offer rate and graduate-outcome figures are course-typical baselines derived from UK admissions and HESA data; they are estimates, not guarantees. Your personalised offer likelihood is calculated in the Unimetrica app.