<p>As in, what career and graduate school prospects would I be looking at with a Bachelors in Math? Any past or current math majors comments can be helpful.</p>
<p>Well, I'm a math major, so here goes -</p>
<p>I think that the obvious option would be to become a professor of math (applied or pure). Few people go for this option, though, so here are a few others:</p>
<p>-actuary
-teacher (elementary/secondary/possibly tertiary)
-economist
-accountant
-consultant (a guess)</p>
<p>You could also go onto graduate school in a discipline other than math (e.g. engineering/biology/chemistry/economics).</p>
<p>Investment banking.</p>
<p><a href="http://math.vassar.edu/career.html%5B/url%5D">http://math.vassar.edu/career.html</a></p>
<p>great ideas</p>
<p>Lawyer. I think Math majors score best of anyone on the LSAT.</p>
<p>Combine a Math degree with something like Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Finance, Economics, Statistics...and the opportunities are endless.</p>
<p>IhateCA, are you serious about investment banking?</p>
<p>I'm asking in earnest here, because I really don't know anything about careers. I am considering being a math major, but I don't really think that I'm suited for life as a professor or an engineer. Hence, I'm interested in occupations out of academia.</p>
<p>Really, math is a very flexible and desirable major, especially when coupled with something more "practical."</p>
<p>I'm planning on doing a Math/Econ double-major and working in investment banking or consulting.</p>
<p>One can do just about anything with math. Who wouldn't hire someone who got through loads of tough math courses? Math is considered one of the most difficult majors, so anyone who makes it out alive must have a brain. I have known some math majors, and they are all geniuses.</p>
<p>I am planning on a math/classics double major myself.</p>
<p>Oh thanks for the info. yeah, i think i will try to double something with math. although, i don't know if Yale will let me double...but that's one reason why I'm going to Yale over say, MIT (not that I'll get into MIT, but yeah...).</p>
<p>Yale will let you double major if you're able to...</p>
<p>The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article in it today about people recruiting kids to summer camps in math and the hard sciences, who will (they hope) go on to persue majors in the fields and work for the companies. Seems as through math is in demand.
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<p>Hell yes. Double major in like, finance or econ and math and you're set. I would do that too, but I hate pure academics-like subjects you take for the hell of taking them (eg. I hate calculus-well, just my calc teacher-but I'm fine with the idea of studying finance). I'm more suited for a more professionally oriented major. I'm actually planning a Finance/Int'l business double and going into investment banking. Finance majors tend to get first picks on bulge bracket ibanking jobs too.</p>
<p>What are the highest paying jobs you can get with a math major. I think that being an actuary is the highest but I could be wrong.</p>
<p>Investment banking pays ~$100k for undergrads, ~$250k for MBAs. I think management consulting pays around there as well-if you go in a big firm.</p>
<p>How much do math professors get paid?</p>
<p>They're in academia. Therefore, not much.</p>
<p>Meh, they don't get paid too badly. At a decent private U, a prof can make at least $70,000 a year, and the pay scale tops out at around $150,000 a year. Sure, it's not much compared to investment bankers, but if you love academia, it's a comfortable amount (unlike, say, journalists). Not to mention research grants and publishing royalties.</p>
<p>I don't think many profs are getting 150k a year.</p>
<p>Also, you should consider how difficult it is to get into a great mat graduate program, how difficult it is to get ANY teaching job, and how difficult it is to get a tenure track math professorship. Oh yeah, and math is tough as a graduate student. Not much is probably the best answer available.</p>
<p>If you have a math degree, then it's possible to segue into engineering for grad school or such and have a ver, very potent resume when you finish.</p>
<p>Professors are paid decently, much better than the last generation, though in math it's a long road there with many years as a student, phd candidate, postdoc, and assistant professor. </p>
<p>But it's a bad idea to ask about money only, though. If you like it and you do the job well you'll be infinitely happier than if you took a job you don't like for a little bit more money. If it pays enough to live comfortably on, then you should take the job you like the most.</p>