Job Prospects for Math Ph.D

L_Hopital
Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:13:00 +0000

Thank you for responding!

So, if I don’t plan on becoming a teacher, I should try to take as few Pure Math classes? The way I have most of my undergrad set up is to take a mix of both Pure and Applied Math classes. I’m just getting the bad feeling that most of these math classes will be nothing more than ‘electives’ if I don’t go into Academia. Things like Real/Complex Analysis and non-computational methods seem to lead nowhere outside of Academia…

I suppose I’m just wondering if I should cut some of the more theoretical stuff and fit in more applied stuff…perhaps some Stochastic processes class or something.

While I do hope your hypothesis is terribly wrong, I fear for the worst.