Majors in need and heavy on statistics?

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<p>I'm a senior and last year I took AP Statistics and love love LOVED it (got a 5 too :)). Loved it so much I'm dual-enrolling at a local college to take Stats II. By far my favorite class ever.</p>

<p>With that said, I want to go into a major that uses statistics and could travel well. I'm in Tennessee now but I want to move. New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto, Europe, the sky is the limit. Heck, I've always wanted to buy a sailboat and live on it instead of a home/apartment. And good pay doesn't hurt either. :)</p>

<p>I'm thinking Accounting or Actuarial Science. Any other ideas? I know a lot of accounting, my mom just graduated from community college with a Associates in Accounting (required to get one by her job) and I did some of her homework and helped her study. I still help her work out spreadsheets in return for her paying for my gas when I don't feel like it. :p If I did accounting, I'd probably want to do auditing, something where your data is more useful.</p>

<p>Actuary...ing sounds like an interesting job. I love the risk and deeper intellectual work involved. I don't know a whole bunch about it, but what I do know sounds neat. I especially liked the actuarial work that actuaries had to do in Florida for hurricane season.</p>

<p>So any others that I missed?</p>

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<p>wow, i think it’s outstanding that you’re really passionate about statistics.
it’s refreshing to hear this since i think statistics is useful.</p>

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<p>What about a plain statistics major?</p>

<p>Career-wise, consultants travel a lot and have to be good with numbers. </p>

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The one actuary I talked to said that it’s a mindless number-grinding job on a day-to-day basis.</p>

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<p>I’m a Statistics major. </p>

<p>Accounting is nothing like Statistics. I took accounting and found it to be extremely boring. If you like accounting, it’s a good career though.</p>

<p>Actuarial Science and Statistics are closely related. If your school doesn’t have AS or Stats major, you might look into Applied Mathematics or Mathematical Economics.</p>

<p>Actuary was named the #1 career for 2010, as far as pay, job environment, stress, growth opportunities, etc. </p>

<p>AS, Stats and any other applied mathematics track are VERY HEAVY in math. 3 or 4 levels of Calculus, Probability and Statistical Theory, Discrete Mathematics, Linear and Matrix Algebra, and throw in some Computer Science based math classes too.</p>

<p>Accounting not so much. You could probably get an accounting degree without having to take beyond College Algebra.</p>

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<p>Stevens Institute in Hoboken has the only undergraduate major in quantitative finance.
<a href=“http://www.stevens.edu/sit/admissions/academics/upload/Quantitative_Finance.pdf[/url]”>http://www.stevens.edu/sit/admissions/academics/upload/Quantitative_Finance.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;