The MSc programme in Mathematical & Computational Finance provides graduates with the foundations in applied mathematics, machine learning, and computer science necessary for a career in modern finance. Many of its alumni have had highly successful careers at banks, hedge funds, and investment funds. It is one of the most popular MSc programmes at the University of Oxford. In 2025, it was ranked by QuantNet as the #1 Financial Mathematics/Quantitative Finance MSc programme in the UK.
Bryce McLeod received his early education at Aberdeen Grammar School, where his grandfather had been Head of Mathematics and Science. As was not uncommon in the Scottish education system at the time, he followed an accelerated path through the school and moved to the University of Aberdeen at the age of 16, receiving a First-Class BA degree in Mathematics & Natural Philosophy in 1950. He was awarded a scholarship to Oxford University, where he received a second First Class BA degree in 1952. His tutor there.
