Career Options for Graduates in the Mathematical Sciences

Summary reports

• According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, education pays! People with more education earn more and are less likely to be unemployed.
• Career information for people with bachelor and master's degrees in the mathematical sciences. Click on the URLs in this pdf report to visit the supporting web sites.
• A slide show of answers to common questions about career options for people with undergraduate degrees in the mathematical sciences.
• Selecting and applying to graduate programs.

Other sources

• What do mathematicians do? is a site that describes career options outside of academia for mathematicians.
• http://www.ams.org/early-careers/ is an AMS list of job profiles of recent bachelors-degree alumni. It's partially supported by the Sloan Foundation.
• http://www.mathsci.appstate.edu/Student/Alumni/ contains the AMS early-careers profiles for some ASU graduates.
• http://www.ams.org/programs/students/undergrad/undergrad#careers is an AMS site with links to information about possible careers in the mathematical sciences.
• http://www.ams.org/careers/ is maintained by the AMS and contains career profiles, resume writing tips, job search links, and lots of other information.
• http://www.maa.org/students/career.html is maintained by the Mathematics Association of America and contains autobiographical career profiles written by many mathematics graduates.
• http://www.beanactuary.com is maintained by the Society of Actuaries and the Casualty Actuarial Society and contains information about opportunities in actuarial science.
• http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/nsrcg/start.htm lists reports on employment of science and engineering graduates compiled by the National Science Foundation. These reports are the sources for the summaries listed at the top of the page.
• A book titled "101 Careers in Mathematics" (QA10.5 .A15 1996) is available in the library.
• http://www.amstat.org/careers is the American Statistical Association's page on career opportunities for statistics majors.
• http://www.recruitingteachers.org contains information on careers in K-12 teaching.

Thanks to Emily Elrod for contributing to this page.

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