<p>i thought about me doing a computational mathematics degree and i decided that a degree in statistics (w/ an option in statistical computing) would be safer and wiser. is anyone here a SAS programmer? are any of you guys statistics majors? how hard is it to get a job right after college with an undergraduate degree? what sort of jobs are out there?</p>
<p>Honestly, I don't like SAS (which isn't the software one uses for computational stats anyway, S+, R and Matlab are better suited for that, but SAS is widely used by the "industry" for other purposes, so learn it by all means)... Is stats safer and wiser than computational math? As a major, I would think so. But I'm no stats major (did math as an undergrad), and for the job market in statistics, it's not a bad thing to have a master's degree (though there are jobs for people with just an bachelor's).</p>
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