M.S. Applied & Computational Mathematics vs M.S. Software Engineering with math undergrad

yesdee
Mon, 11 Aug 2014 16:31:25 +0000

Depends what type of job you would like to get in. If you want to do software development/project management, go for SE. There may be some overlap between the two majors. It is the skills you have that will make you make more marketable than the major alone.

The latest buzzword in the IT industry is Big Data/Data Science. Computational math seems more suited for this. If you can add skills in statistics, data mining, predictive modelling, big data (hadoop and hive), you will have great job opportunity out of college starting in six figures. Good luck!