Faculty of Mathematics

The rules in this section do not apply to students seeking a Bachelor of Computing and Financial Management (BCFM) or Bachelor of Software Engineering (BSE) degree. The list of eligible joint honours plans for Software Engineering students is available in the Software Engineering section of this Calendar.

Eligible Plan Categories (In Plan-Sequencing Priority Order – Top Highest, Bottom Lowest)

1. “Stand-alone” Mathematics Faculty Honours plans
2. Mathematics Faculty Joint Honours plans
   
   • Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) Joint can be combined with a Bachelor of Mathematics (BMath) Mathematics Joint Honours
3. Non-Mathematics Joint Honours plans
   
   • BCS Joint and BMath Joint plans can be combined with a non-Mathematics Joint Honours (acceptable non-Mathematics Joint Honours plans are listed in the faculty sections of the Calendar)
4. Mathematics Faculty minors or options
5. Non-Mathematics minors or options

Plans will be listed on a student’s diploma in the above order.

A BCS or BMath student’s plan must include one of the following:

• A stand-alone Mathematics Faculty Honours plan, or
• Two Mathematics Faculty Joint Honours plans, or
• A Joint BCS plan and a non-Mathematics Joint Honours plan (acceptable non-Mathematics Joint Honours plans are listed in the non-Mathematics faculty section of the Calendar)

More plans may be added subject to the other restrictions of this section. The plan listed first on a graduating student’s diploma will dictate the student’s degree: if the first plan is a BCS plan, then the student will graduate with a BCS. If the first plan is a BMath plan, then the student will graduate with a BMath.

Mathematics Faculty Joint Honours Plans

Joint honours academic plans both offered by the Mathematics Faculty, in conjunction with the common degree requirements in Table I, require a total of 40 courses (20 units): the 10 mathematics courses in the Faculty core (outlined in Table II) plus the joint requirements of the two departments/school for a minimum of 26 mathematics courses, and at least 10 non-math courses (five units). Joint requirements for each department/school can be found in the corresponding section of the Calendar.

Restrictions on Multiple-Plan Combinations

1. A stand-alone BCS plan cannot be combined with any BMath plan (including Joint Honours plans).
2. A stand-alone BMath Joint Honours plan cannot be combined with any non-Mathematics Joint Honours plan.
3. The BMath (Data Science) and BCS (Data Science) plans cannot be combined with any other Faculty of Mathematics Honours or Joint Honours plan, except that the BCS (Data Science) can make up the BCS component of the Business Administration and Computer Science Double Degree program.
4. With the exception of Mathematical Finance, which can be combined with another Actuarial Science and/or Pure Mathematics plan, no student may enrol in or graduate from two plans from the same group in the following list:
   
   • All plans offered in Actuarial Science
   • All plans offered in Applied Mathematics
   • All plans offered in Combinatorics and Optimization (including all Mathematical Optimization plans)
   • All plans offered in Computational Mathematics
   • All plans offered in Computer Science
   • All plans offered in Pure Mathematics
   • All plans offered in Statistics
   • All Mathematics/Business plans other than Mathematical Economics
5. A stand-alone BCS Honours co-op plan or BMath Honours co-op plan cannot be combined with any stand-alone non-co-op Honours plan (including Joint Honours plans).

Specific Invalid Multiple-Plan Combinations