Welcome to Mathematics and Statistics at the Open University


Head of Department: Dr Mick Bromilow

You can study our courses in Mathematics and Statistics part-time at home by supported Distance Teaching. We are Europe's largest provider of university-level education in Mathematics and Statistics and provide courses for approximately 80% of the part-time Mathematics and Statistics students in the UK. Our expanding MSc programme caters for more than 25% of students who do part-time postgraduate study in Mathematics. In a recent national Student Satisfaction Survey (see www.tqi.ac.uk) the Open University students were the most satisfied with their courses and OU Mathematics students were the most satisfied Mathematics students.

The Department
The Mathematics and Statistics Department is part of the Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology, and comprises over 30 central academic members of staff and 15 academic staff based at regional centres around the UK. It is also home for a number of research fellows, visiting researchers and both full-time and part-time research students.

Research and Seminars
The Department has an active research programme with regular seminars, workshops and conferences, including a seminar series in statistics. The main interests for both teaching and research currently lie in the areas of analysis, combinatorics, history of mathematics, mathematical physics, mathematics education and statistics.