A liberal arts education prepares you for the challenges of a changing and unpredictable world, equipping you with the skills to communicate, debate, solve problems and think critically. Here's a sampling of careers paths for mathematics and statistics majors.

First Jobs

  • Research assistant, Mathematics Policy Research, Inc., Washington
  • Software engineer, Uber, San Francisco
  • Researcher, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Washington
  • Actuarial associate, Prudential Financial, Jersey City, New Jersey
  • Teacher, Culver Academy, Indiana
  • Research assistant, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
  • Research assistant/Programmer II, Mathematical Policy Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Product analyst, PIMCO, Newport Beach, California
  • Junior operations associate, Cambridge Associates, Arlington, Virginia
  • Analyst, Altair Advisers, Chicago
  • Mathematics teaching fellow, St. Paul's School, New Hampshire
  • Helen fellow, American Museum of Natural History, New York City
  • Development fellow, Morningstar Inc., Chicago
  • Fixed income associate, AllianceBernstein, New York CityResearch technician, Cleveland Clinic
  • Senior analyst, Nationwide Mutual Insurance, Columbus, Ohio
  • Data scientist, iRobot, Boston
  • Research assistant, Brookings Institution
  • Researcher, Gulf of Maine Research Institute

Careers

  • Deputy director of engineering, City of Indianapolis
  • Samuel R. Harrell Emeritus Professor, Wharton School of Business
  • EVP, Head of enterprise information security risk, Wells Fargo Services
  • Senior manager, IBM
  • V.P. of social responsibility, Mercy Investment Services
  • Professor of statistics, Amherst College
  • Global chief research officer, Ipsos
  • Software engineer, Google
  • Data scientist, Amazon
  • Computer programmer, Unisys Corporation
  • Senior vice president/special advisor for economic policy, Federal Reserve Bank-Kansas City
  • Professor, University of Toronto

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Lifelong baseball fan Jack Marino ’19 relied on skills he acquired in his math and economics classes to research how the Padres use email marketing to attract fans to San Diego’s Petco Park.

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Improving Access

Math major Flynn Shannon ’20 relied on his knowledge of computer science and coding to share the Library of Congress’s vast collection of digital images with a new and larger audience in a simple way that anyone can access.

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