<p>Since the math majors on this board are attending UC's i take it most of them aren't planning to simply be high school math teachers. I was wondering where they are heading in life. What i am asking i guess is, what do the math majors on this board want to be with their math degree? (I was inspired by the econ thread, economist sound so cool now.)</p>
<p>i’m doing applied math/econ right now and i’m looking to go into finance. Many of the math majors i know are looking to do either finance or become an actuary.</p>
<p>Most Math majors does Math/econ or Math/Accounting. So they have plenty of options since math is used in basically all the good paying jobs it really is a gateway major</p>
<p>I applied as a CSE major, but I’m planning to double later on with Applied Math for a stronger background.</p>
<p>I hope to become a development economist. I want to also work with clean water systems so I can learn the ins and outs to become a more effective development economist. Also a Peace and Conflict studies major. I basically just want to be adequately prepared to be the absolute best economist I can be. (Working with undeveloped countries is VERY, VERY different than economics studies in developed countries and requires a great deal of knowledge in the less-mathematical social sciences.)</p>
<p>You can really do pretty much anything with a math major. You can go to law school, get a masters in economics, get an MBA, etc, etc, etc.</p>
<p>And remember, if you don’t take a certain class needed for a certain masters that you find out you want later, then take classes after you graduate in the time period between undergrad and grad.</p>
<p>I want to apply my math skills toward a career in Information/computer security. For example, cryptography. My major would be Mathematics of Computation at UCLA, which combines Mathematics and Computer Science courses.</p>
<p>This may/may not be helpful:
[Careers</a> in Mathematics](<a href=“http://www.math.ucsc.edu/undergraduate/careers/index.html]Careers”>http://www.math.ucsc.edu/undergraduate/careers/index.html)</p>
<p>if any of you have questions regarding math/stats/econ at Cal feel free to ask here or pm me.</p>
<p>Like Jetforce I too am looking into Finance. Tons of people here go into Actuarial positions as well (UCLA even offers a Math/Actuarial Science major). UCLA’s Math/Econ major also caters heavily towards students who want to get an MBA or a PhD in Econ. As others have mentioned there is also ample opportunity to combine mathematics with CompSci at UCLA thanks to the Mathematics of Computation major and all the algorithms, cryptology, logic, etc classes offered by the Math and CS department. There is definitely a lot of options and versatility for math majors at UCLA</p>
<p>I too would like to say that if any of you have questions regarding math/stats/econ at UCLA feel free to ask here or pm me. (Jet, hope you don’t mind the Copy+Paste 
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<p>quant trader</p>
<p>so it seems that if a math major takes a few courses here and there… they can do the same things as any other major can. Is this right? we can do the same stuff as an econ major and a computer science major? Maybe math is where its at.</p>
<p>applied math is versatile but a pure math degree by itself is notoriously a useless degree</p>
<p>“There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.” —Nikolai Lobachevsky</p>
<p><a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major2006/Math.stm[/url]”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major2006/Math.stm</a></p>
<p>most people getting pure math degrees go on to grad school like most physics majors. Also, pure math majors can find plenty of work doing crytopgraphy, actuarial science, software engineering, or quantitative finance.</p>