Master's program

The Master's of Mathematics (MMATH) in Computational Mathematics is an intensive, twelve-month research-based program that gives students a foundation in the theory and applications of the broad field of Computational Mathematics. 

The program is targeted to students with a Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, or any program with a strong mathematical component (including economics, engineering, the physical sciences) and will provide excellent students a fast track to PhD studies or to a top job in industry. 

An important feature of the Master’s in Computational Mathematics program is its breadth. Four of the required courses are chosen from the core areas in Computational Mathematics:

  • Discrete computational mathematics
  • Numerical methods
  • Computational statistics and machine learning
  • Scientific computing
  • Computational optimization

The two remaining courses are chosen from a large list of suggested graduate courses offered by the various departments and schools housed within the Faculty of Mathematics. For more information, please see: degree requirements and course offerings.

All Master's students also complete a full-time, four-month, supervised, research project in a research area of their choice. For more information, please visit our research project and presentation guide.

We are currently not accepting new students in the coursework stream of the CM Master's program.

Kira Selby standing in front of a white board 

Meet Kira! 

Kira Selby began her post-secondary career studying Mathematics and Physics at McMaster University. Originally, she intended to pursue physics at a graduate level, but near the end of her undergraduate career she had a change of heart. After watching Google Deepmind’s AlphaGo defeat champion Go player Lee Sedol, she was inspired and became determined that research in machine learning and artificial intelligence would be her future path. And for that, there was only one place to go - the University of Waterloo. Kira earned a Master’s degree from Waterloo’s Computational Mathematics program under Dr. Pascal Poupart, and continues to pursue her dream through Waterloo’s school of Computer Science where she is currently working on her PhD.