The School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences (MACS) at Heriot-Watt is at the forefront of education in these fundamentally important disciplines. It brings together the departments of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics, Computer Science and Mathematics, within which are offered a wide variety of taught courses and an array of relevant and innovative research options.

MACS has an excellent reputation and is highly rated for the quality of its research and teaching. In addition, the School has myriad links to international industry and offers excellent pathways into the many fascinating careers open to Mathematics and Computer Science specialists. The community of high-quality postgraduate students numbers some 300, over half of whom are from outside the UK. Their range of interests varies in line with the many courses and research disciplines on offer. For example, some of the School's leading edge research projects are helping to explain:

how genetic testing may impact upon the insurance industry;
how computers can recognise human emotions through the acoustics of speech;
why Britain's red squirrel population is declining in the face of the invading grey squirrel;
how epidemics spread in human, plant and animal populations

The taught postgraduate courses and research disciplines are listed by department. Click on a link on the left for more details.
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