Diploma in Mathematical Sciences
Course code: D-MATHSC
February, July
Commonwealth Supported Places (CSPs) available
Access Melbourne is available
January, March, July
AUD $59,808 (2026 indicative first year fee)
IELTS 6.5 (with no band less than 6.0)
Course structure
Overview
With a Diploma in Mathematical Sciences you can specialise in:
- Applied Mathematics
- Operations Research/Discrete Mathematics
- Pure Mathematics
- Statistics/Stochastic Processes
You will learn to work with mathematics and statistics while collaborating with people in other disciplines such as science, industry, technology and commerce to think critically and argue logically.
Course structure
Students undertake the Diploma in Mathematical Sciences together with an undergraduate degree, to make a total program of between 350 and 400 points.
Up to 50 points of appropriate Mathematics and Statistics subjects in the undergraduate degree program may also be attributed to the Diploma.
Students are required to select subjects in the undergraduate degree and the Diploma, so that all requirements of the undergraduate degree are met and, in addition through the Diploma, the student meets the specific requirements for the award of any one specialisation of the major in Mathematics and Statistics, as defined for the Bachelor of Science.