jobs for math majors

turbo93
Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:06:15 +0000

Operations Research. The most fun part of mathematics, hands down. And not all engineering is a no-go. Try Industrial Engineering, which (depending on the specialty) is heavy on Math, OpRes, Probability and Stats, and the like.

I had a few PhD friends in Applied Math & OpRes at a major industrial research center and they were doing decision analysis stuff for Fortune 1 CEO level management… Human Excel basically… “Do we build the plant here or there”, “do we buy or make”, and the like.

Those who suggest actuarial work may actually want to spend a week or two working as actuaries :-). Makes accounting look exciting…