Engineering vs. Math -- What to major in?

ucbalumnus
Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:14:09 +0000

just a girl:

if I were to go that route (the pure math major while taking lots of math-related courses), what would my options be upon graduation? A job? Grad school (in what field)?



Possible job and career options:

Math + CS (including algorithms / complexity, software engineering, operating systems, computer networks) => computer software development
Math + statistics + economics + finance => quantitative finance, [url=http://www.beanactuary.com/]actuarial[/url] / risk management jobs

Of course, graduate school in any of the above subjects is a possibility if you have taken at least a few of the core junior and senior level courses for the subject.