The University of NSW is one of Australia's largest universities, with an enrolment of around 25,000 students, and offers a full range of programs.

The School of Mathematics and Statistics has more than 60 permanent academic staff and many visiting professors, emeritus professors, and postdoctoral fellows. For adminstrative purposes, it is split into departments:

The School's undergraduate programs cover a wide spectrum of courses in Pure and Applied Mathematics and Statistics. The School's alumni are found in an extraordinary range of careers.

The School's postgraduate programs include coursework degrees (at Graduate Diploma and Masters levels) and vigorous research programs leading to MSc and PhD degrees. Currently the School has about 70 postgraduate students of whom approximately 50 are enrolled in the PhD program.

Over the past thirty years, the School has graduated more than two hundred research students, many of whom have gone on to distinguished careers in Australia and throughout the Asian region.

In addition to our role of teaching students of mathematics, science, engineering and many other areas, the School has become one of Australia's most important centres of mathematical research.

Our success in obtaining funding from the Australian Research Council and other external funding bodies is a measure of its national importance. In each of the last five years its external funding has been around one million dollars, which is more than any other mathematics department in the country and more than the total external research funding of many universities.

Science Watch recently published rankings of Mathematics Departments from all over the world, based on quantity (total number of citations) and quality (impact made by papers). UNSW School of Mathematics was ranked number 14 on the quality index, and was the only University outside North America and Europe to make this list. UNSW Mathematics also leads Australian departments on the quantity index, but no Australian University is large enough to compete on a numerical basis with huge international universities.

A feature of the School's research is the unusually high level of international collaboration by its members, supported by a vigorous visitor program. In an average year, some fifty mathematicians from around the world spend periods of two to four weeks as visiting professors in the School, conducting joint research with local mathematicians and statisticians, giving seminars and making themselves available for consultation with students working in their area. Many members of the School are actively engaged in collaborative research programs with industry.

The School's computing facilities are among the best in Australia. It has its own computing centre, which manages the School's distributed computing environment of Linux and Windows desktops, including a high performance Linux computational cluster. The School recognises both numerical and symbolic computing as an integral part of its research activities, and is continually improving its access to high performance computing and scientific visualization facilities.