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Master's Degree (120 credits) in Mathematical Sciences, Specialization Track

Master en sciences mathématiques

Overview

From understanding a problem to analyzing its solutions, through modeling, designing an efficient algorithm, and applying it, by the end of the master’s program, you will be ready to tackle real-world problems in economics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, physics, big data and machine learning, or communications, in partnership with experts in these fields, bringing your rigor, your ability to synthesize information, logical thinking, and modeling skills.

Whether you choose teaching, the business world, the public sector, or research, these strengths make you indispensable scientific partners for the success of multidisciplinary projects.

Your goals

  • Get involved in current issues: How can we improve the accuracy of weather forecasts? How can we improve transportation networks, food supply chains, energy distribution, or information sharing on Facebook? How can we optimize the positioning of satellites around Earth? How can we understand a stock market crash? How can we study the evolution of an ecological system? How can we make mathematical learning meaningful? 
  • Master all stages of solving real-world problems (analysis, modeling, simulation, and implementation) using the theoretical, algorithmic, and computational tools of applied mathematics; 
  • Integrate into professional life (teaching, research, industry) with a scientific and multidisciplinary perspective. 

The benefits of the training program

  • A truly career-oriented program that connects students with the professional world.  
  • Training in individual and team work, autonomy, and taking initiative.  
  • An interdisciplinary approach grounded in a solid theoretical foundation.  
  • A specialization in applied mathematics: a valuable asset, whether you plan to pursue a career in teaching, business, or research.  
  • Numerous opportunities for study abroad in Belgium and abroad. 

The program

The master’s program at the University of Namur combines theory and practice through analytical and numerical approaches, offering in-depth training in scientific programming. 

By choosing the advanced track, you will receive training in scientific research at a research institute (naXys or IRDENa). 

The master’s program combines internships at research centers, independent research, and in-depth training in applied mathematics. 

A final thesis focused on a topic of your choice concludes your program. 

Finally, you will develop independence, communication skills, language proficiency, and philosophical and ethical reasoning to become responsible scientists integrated into the society of tomorrow. 

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International experience

You have the opportunity to participate in an Erasmus study abroad program at prestigious universities abroad (in Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, etc.). 

The English-language program includes a 3-day trip to London.

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Master's Degree (120 credits) in Mathematical Sciences, with a specialization in Data Science

Master en sciences mathématiques

Overview

From understanding a problem to analyzing its solutions, through modeling, designing an effective algorithm, and applying it, by the end of the master’s program, you will be ready to tackle real-world problems in economics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, physics, big data and machine learning, or communication, in partnership with experts in these fields, bringing to bear your rigor, your ability to synthesize information, logical thinking, and modeling skills.

Whether you choose teaching, the business world, the public sector, or research, these strengths make you indispensable scientific partners for the success of multidisciplinary projects.

Your goals

  • Get involved in current issues: How can we improve the transportation network, a food production chain, energy distribution, or information on Facebook? How can we calculate a satellite’s orbit around Earth and optimize its positioning? How can we understand a stock market crash? How can we study the evolution of an ecological system and its response to a disturbance? How can we make mathematical learning meaningful?  
  • Master all stages of solving real-world problems (analysis, modeling, simulation, and implementation) using the theoretical, algorithmic, and computational tools of applied mathematics; 
  • Integrate into professional life (teaching, research, industry) with a scientific and multidisciplinary perspective. 

The benefits of the training program

  • A truly career-oriented program that connects students with the professional world.  
  • Training in individual and team work, autonomy, and taking initiative.  
  • An interdisciplinary approach grounded in a solid theoretical foundation.  
  • A specialization in applied mathematics: a valuable asset, whether you plan to pursue a career in teaching, business, or research.  
  • Numerous opportunities for study abroad in Belgium and abroad.  

The program

The University of Namur’s master’s program combines theory and practice through analytical and digital approaches, featuring in-depth training in scientific programming. 

By choosing the Data Science specialization, you will learn to extract, store, analyze, visualize, and interpret data available in various quantities and formats (e.g., big data) to become data analysis specialists and designers of tomorrow’s solutions. 

The master’s program combines internships at companies and research centers, off-campus courses, independent projects, and in-depth training in applied mathematics.  

A final thesis focused on a topic of your choice concludes your program. 

Finally, you will develop independence, communication skills, language proficiency, and philosophical and ethical thinking to become responsible scientists integrated into the society of tomorrow. 

Sciences études

International experience

You have the opportunity to participate in an Erasmus study abroad program at prestigious universities abroad (in Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, etc.). 

The English-language program includes a 3-day trip to London.

Other master's programs in mathematics

The University of Namur is organizing:

And after the master's degree

You want to empower young people to learn and collaborate, guide them, help them become agents of change?

Discover how to become a teacher in upper secondary (secondary 4-6) after your master's degree.

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Master's degree (120 credits) in Mathematical Sciences, with a specialization in Project Engineering

Master en sciences mathématiques

Overview

From understanding a problem to analyzing its solutions, through modeling, designing an effective algorithm, and applying it, by the end of the master’s program, you will be ready to tackle real-world problems in economics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, physics, big data and machine learning, or communications, in partnership with experts in these fields, bringing to bear your rigor, your ability to synthesize information, logical thinking, and modeling skills.

Whether you choose teaching, the business world, the public sector, or research, these strengths make you indispensable scientific partners for the success of multidisciplinary projects.

Your goals

  • Get involved in current issues: How can we improve the accuracy of weather forecasts? How can we improve transportation networks, food supply chains, energy distribution, or information sharing on Facebook? How can we optimize the positioning of satellites around Earth? How can we understand a stock market crash? How can we study the evolution of an ecological system? How can we make mathematical learning meaningful? 
  • Master all stages of solving real-world problems (analysis, modeling, simulation, and implementation) using the theoretical, algorithmic, and computational tools of applied mathematics; 
  • Integrate into professional life (teaching, research, industry) with a scientific and multidisciplinary perspective. 

The benefits of the training program

  •  A truly career-oriented program that connects students with the professional world.  
  • Training in individual and team work, independence, and taking initiative.  
  • An interdisciplinary approach grounded in a solid theoretical foundation.  
  • A specialization in applied mathematics: a valuable asset, whether you plan to pursue a career in teaching, business, or research.  
  • Numerous opportunities for study abroad in Belgium and abroad.  

The program

The master’s program at the University of Namur combines theory and practice through analytical and numerical approaches, featuring in-depth training in scientific programming. 

By choosing the specialized track in Project Engineering, you will gain experience in the various roles mathematicians play in the corporate world through a group project lasting several months within a company. 

The master’s program combines internships at companies and research centers, off-campus courses, independent study, and in-depth training in applied mathematics.  

A final thesis focused on a topic of your choice concludes your program. 

Finally, you will develop independence, communication skills, language proficiency, and philosophical and ethical thinking to become responsible scientists integrated into the society of tomorrow. 

Sciences études

International experience

You have the opportunity to participate in an Erasmus study abroad program at prestigious universities abroad (in Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, etc.). 

The English-language program includes a 3-day trip to London. 

Other master's programs in mathematics

The University of Namur is organizing:

And after the master's degree

You want to empower young people to learn and collaborate, guide them, help them become agents of change?

Discover how to become a teacher in upper secondary (secondary 4-6) after your master's degree.

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Master's Degree (120 credits) in Mathematical Sciences, with a focus on education

Mathématique études

Point of attention

This training program is suspended. Only current students (enrolled in 2024-2025) will be able to re-enroll and complete their course.

To access teacher training and teach secondary 4 to 6, you must:

  • either undertake a master's degree in teaching section 4 (120 credits), after a disciplinary bachelor's degree (180 credits)
  • or take a master's degree in teaching section 5 (60 credits), after a disciplinary bachelor's degree (180 credits) and a disciplinary master's degree (60 or 120 credits)

More information on initial teacher training

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Jury

Carletti Timoteo
Chair of the Examination Panel
Franco Nicolas
Secretary of the Examination Panel

Careers for Mathematicians

Careers in mathematics

For graduates in applied mathematics from the University of Namur, the transition from studies to the world of work presents no major difficulties: schools are short of mathematics teachers; the business world is looking for skills in networks, dynamic systems, optimization, control, modeling and programming, all assets that mathematicians trained at UNamur possess.

Confronting mathematics with reality

Many mathematicians invest their knowledge within companies. Many business sectors appreciate their analytical and synthesizing skills, as well as their rigor. Whether in consultancy or in the economic and industrial world, mathematicians have plenty of room to model phenomena and situations and, more broadly, put their mathematical baggage at the service of society.

Building IT solutions

Mathematicians at UNamur receive a solid training in scientific programming, an asset that many of them put to good use within various organizations (private or public), or in IT service companies. After a few years in applications development, mathematicians generally move on to project management.

Whatever their job title and level of responsibility, they work to bring human beings and an information management and processing system into harmonious interaction... an ongoing challenge that demands a good sense of interpersonal relations and an excellent knowledge of technology and the business world.

My job as an IT manager is at times akin to a mathematical demonstration. I start with a hypothesis, i.e. the existing situation, the budget, the resources, and I have to arrive at a thesis, in this case a major business project, such as setting up a company abroad. To achieve this, I conduct a real demonstration using lemmas, i.e. small implementations of IT solutions. To set up a company abroad, for example, you need to secure your IT network.

Alain Dieudonné, IT Manager

Evaluating financial or economic risks

Risk management is a strategic issue in banking and financial organizations, stock markets, insurance companies, but also parastatal institutions for social security, pension control, etc. Thanks to their sound knowledge of modeling, mathematicians often perform functions linked to controlling the uncertainty inherent in most economic activities.

Producing statistics

Statistics play an important role in today's society: opinion polls and surveys are part of our daily lives. Some consultancies specializing in conducting this type of analysis call on mathematicians.

Modeling reality

Whether it's the shape of contact lenses, the dynamics of a population, the concentration of space debris, the movements of the oceans, the understanding of social networks, the work of mathematicians is always linked to modeling: being able to understand, simplify, conceptualize and visualize a situation, to come out with a more abstract model likely to provide a global description of a phenomenon.

I've been working for a few years as an actuary in a consultancy firm in the field of supplementary pensions. We live in a world full of hazards: the actuary's role is to quantify, to model uncertainties... Above all, mathematics enables us to develop our way of thinking, which makes our capacity for analysis our main working tool.

Noémie Laloux, actuary

Transmitting a passion for reality

Teaching and the world of training still represent one of the major outlets for mathematicians. Almost a third of our young, professionally active graduates communicate their passion for the real world by teaching mathematics and/or science in upper secondary schools, colleges and universities.

The subject we teach is not particularly difficult. Above all, we need to give young people a taste for mathematics and help those with difficulties to understand it. It's a daily challenge.

Marie Matelart, Secondary school mathematics teacher

Pushing the limits of our knowledge

Mathematicians pursue research mainly in academic settings, in Belgium or abroad. Universities and public funds (FNRS, FRIA, etc.) finance the completion of a PhD (between 4 and 6 years) or award time-limited grants for participation in a research program, sometimes in partnership with the business world.

Aside from fundamental research, mathematics is often a valuable tool for scientific progress in other disciplines: computer science, astrophysics and physics, meteorology, economics, transport, biology... In these multidisciplinary contexts, dual skills often represent an asset.

Sciences études

Careers for Mathematicians

Careers in mathematics

For graduates in applied mathematics from the University of Namur, the transition from studies to the world of work presents no major difficulties: schools are short of mathematics teachers; the business world is looking for skills in networks, dynamic systems, optimization, control, modeling and programming, all assets that mathematicians trained at UNamur possess.

Confronting mathematics with reality

Many mathematicians invest their knowledge within companies. Many business sectors appreciate their analytical and synthesizing skills, as well as their rigor. Whether in consultancy or in the economic and industrial world, mathematicians have plenty of room to model phenomena and situations and, more broadly, put their mathematical baggage at the service of society.

Building IT solutions

Mathematicians at UNamur receive a solid training in scientific programming, an asset that many of them put to good use within various organizations (private or public), or in IT service companies. After a few years in applications development, mathematicians generally move on to project management.

Whatever their job title and level of responsibility, they work to bring human beings and an information management and processing system into harmonious interaction... an ongoing challenge that demands a good sense of interpersonal relations and an excellent knowledge of technology and the business world.

My job as an IT manager is at times akin to a mathematical demonstration. I start with a hypothesis, i.e. the existing situation, the budget, the resources, and I have to arrive at a thesis, in this case a major business project, such as setting up a company abroad. To achieve this, I conduct a real demonstration using lemmas, i.e. small implementations of IT solutions. To set up a company abroad, for example, you need to secure your IT network.

Alain Dieudonné, IT Manager

Evaluating financial or economic risks

Risk management is a strategic issue in banking and financial organizations, stock markets, insurance companies, but also parastatal institutions for social security, pension control, etc. Thanks to their sound knowledge of modeling, mathematicians often perform functions linked to controlling the uncertainty inherent in most economic activities.

Producing statistics

Statistics play an important role in today's society: opinion polls and surveys are part of our daily lives. Some consultancies specializing in conducting this type of analysis call on mathematicians.

Modeling reality

Whether it's the shape of contact lenses, the dynamics of a population, the concentration of space debris, the movements of the oceans, the understanding of social networks, the work of mathematicians is always linked to modeling: being able to understand, simplify, conceptualize and visualize a situation, to come out with a more abstract model likely to provide a global description of a phenomenon.

I've been working for a few years as an actuary in a consultancy firm in the field of supplementary pensions. We live in a world full of hazards: the actuary's role is to quantify, to model uncertainties... Above all, mathematics enables us to develop our way of thinking, which makes our capacity for analysis our main working tool.

Noémie Laloux, actuary

Transmitting a passion for reality

Teaching and the world of training still represent one of the major outlets for mathematicians. Almost a third of our young, professionally active graduates communicate their passion for the real world by teaching mathematics and/or science in upper secondary schools, colleges and universities.

The subject we teach is not particularly difficult. Above all, we need to give young people a taste for mathematics and help those with difficulties to understand it. It's a daily challenge.

Marie Matelart, Secondary school mathematics teacher

Pushing the limits of our knowledge

Mathematicians pursue research mainly in academic settings, in Belgium or abroad. Universities and public funds (FNRS, FRIA, etc.) finance the completion of a PhD (between 4 and 6 years) or award time-limited grants for participation in a research program, sometimes in partnership with the business world.

Aside from fundamental research, mathematics is often a valuable tool for scientific progress in other disciplines: computer science, astrophysics and physics, meteorology, economics, transport, biology... In these multidisciplinary contexts, dual skills often represent an asset.

Sciences études

Careers for Mathematicians

Careers in mathematics

For graduates in applied mathematics from the University of Namur, the transition from studies to the world of work presents no major difficulties: schools are short of mathematics teachers; the business world is looking for skills in networks, dynamic systems, optimization, control, modeling and programming, all assets that mathematicians trained at UNamur possess.

Confronting mathematics with reality

Many mathematicians invest their knowledge within companies. Many business sectors appreciate their analytical and synthesizing skills, as well as their rigor. Whether in consultancy or in the economic and industrial world, mathematicians have plenty of room to model phenomena and situations and, more broadly, put their mathematical baggage at the service of society.

Building IT solutions

Mathematicians at UNamur receive a solid training in scientific programming, an asset that many of them put to good use within various organizations (private or public), or in IT service companies. After a few years in applications development, mathematicians generally move on to project management.

Whatever their job title and level of responsibility, they work to bring human beings and an information management and processing system into harmonious interaction... an ongoing challenge that demands a good sense of interpersonal relations and an excellent knowledge of technology and the business world.

My job as an IT manager is at times akin to a mathematical demonstration. I start with a hypothesis, i.e. the existing situation, the budget, the resources, and I have to arrive at a thesis, in this case a major business project, such as setting up a company abroad. To achieve this, I conduct a real demonstration using lemmas, i.e. small implementations of IT solutions. To set up a company abroad, for example, you need to secure your IT network.

Alain Dieudonné, IT Manager

Evaluating financial or economic risks

Risk management is a strategic issue in banking and financial organizations, stock markets, insurance companies, but also parastatal institutions for social security, pension control, etc. Thanks to their sound knowledge of modeling, mathematicians often perform functions linked to controlling the uncertainty inherent in most economic activities.

Producing statistics

Statistics play an important role in today's society: opinion polls and surveys are part of our daily lives. Some consultancies specializing in conducting this type of analysis call on mathematicians.

Modeling reality

Whether it's the shape of contact lenses, the dynamics of a population, the concentration of space debris, the movements of the oceans, the understanding of social networks, the work of mathematicians is always linked to modeling: being able to understand, simplify, conceptualize and visualize a situation, to come out with a more abstract model likely to provide a global description of a phenomenon.

I've been working for a few years as an actuary in a consultancy firm in the field of supplementary pensions. We live in a world full of hazards: the actuary's role is to quantify, to model uncertainties... Above all, mathematics enables us to develop our way of thinking, which makes our capacity for analysis our main working tool.

Noémie Laloux, actuary

Transmitting a passion for reality

Teaching and the world of training still represent one of the major outlets for mathematicians. Almost a third of our young, professionally active graduates communicate their passion for the real world by teaching mathematics and/or science in upper secondary schools, colleges and universities.

The subject we teach is not particularly difficult. Above all, we need to give young people a taste for mathematics and help those with difficulties to understand it. It's a daily challenge.

Marie Matelart, Secondary school mathematics teacher

Pushing the limits of our knowledge

Mathematicians pursue research mainly in academic settings, in Belgium or abroad. Universities and public funds (FNRS, FRIA, etc.) finance the completion of a PhD (between 4 and 6 years) or award time-limited grants for participation in a research program, sometimes in partnership with the business world.

Aside from fundamental research, mathematics is often a valuable tool for scientific progress in other disciplines: computer science, astrophysics and physics, meteorology, economics, transport, biology... In these multidisciplinary contexts, dual skills often represent an asset.

Sciences études

Careers for Mathematicians

Careers in mathematics

For graduates in applied mathematics from the University of Namur, the transition from studies to the world of work presents no major difficulties: schools are short of mathematics teachers; the business world is looking for skills in networks, dynamic systems, optimization, control, modeling and programming, all assets that mathematicians trained at UNamur possess.

Confronting mathematics with reality

Many mathematicians invest their knowledge within companies. Many business sectors appreciate their analytical and synthesizing skills, as well as their rigor. Whether in consultancy or in the economic and industrial world, mathematicians have plenty of room to model phenomena and situations and, more broadly, put their mathematical baggage at the service of society.

Building IT solutions

Mathematicians at UNamur receive a solid training in scientific programming, an asset that many of them put to good use within various organizations (private or public), or in IT service companies. After a few years in applications development, mathematicians generally move on to project management.

Whatever their job title and level of responsibility, they work to bring human beings and an information management and processing system into harmonious interaction... an ongoing challenge that demands a good sense of interpersonal relations and an excellent knowledge of technology and the business world.

My job as an IT manager is at times akin to a mathematical demonstration. I start with a hypothesis, i.e. the existing situation, the budget, the resources, and I have to arrive at a thesis, in this case a major business project, such as setting up a company abroad. To achieve this, I conduct a real demonstration using lemmas, i.e. small implementations of IT solutions. To set up a company abroad, for example, you need to secure your IT network.

Alain Dieudonné, IT Manager

Evaluating financial or economic risks

Risk management is a strategic issue in banking and financial organizations, stock markets, insurance companies, but also parastatal institutions for social security, pension control, etc. Thanks to their sound knowledge of modeling, mathematicians often perform functions linked to controlling the uncertainty inherent in most economic activities.

Producing statistics

Statistics play an important role in today's society: opinion polls and surveys are part of our daily lives. Some consultancies specializing in conducting this type of analysis call on mathematicians.

Modeling reality

Whether it's the shape of contact lenses, the dynamics of a population, the concentration of space debris, the movements of the oceans, the understanding of social networks, the work of mathematicians is always linked to modeling: being able to understand, simplify, conceptualize and visualize a situation, to come out with a more abstract model likely to provide a global description of a phenomenon.

I've been working for a few years as an actuary in a consultancy firm in the field of supplementary pensions. We live in a world full of hazards: the actuary's role is to quantify, to model uncertainties... Above all, mathematics enables us to develop our way of thinking, which makes our capacity for analysis our main working tool.

Noémie Laloux, actuary

Transmitting a passion for reality

Teaching and the world of training still represent one of the major outlets for mathematicians. Almost a third of our young, professionally active graduates communicate their passion for the real world by teaching mathematics and/or science in upper secondary schools, colleges and universities.

The subject we teach is not particularly difficult. Above all, we need to give young people a taste for mathematics and help those with difficulties to understand it. It's a daily challenge.

Marie Matelart, Secondary school mathematics teacher

Pushing the limits of our knowledge

Mathematicians pursue research mainly in academic settings, in Belgium or abroad. Universities and public funds (FNRS, FRIA, etc.) finance the completion of a PhD (between 4 and 6 years) or award time-limited grants for participation in a research program, sometimes in partnership with the business world.

Aside from fundamental research, mathematics is often a valuable tool for scientific progress in other disciplines: computer science, astrophysics and physics, meteorology, economics, transport, biology... In these multidisciplinary contexts, dual skills often represent an asset.

Sciences études