Mathematics, B.S. ~ Careers and Graduate Study
An exciting, challenging, and rewarding field, mathematics acts as the foundation of our understanding of the universe in which we live. It is at once pure logic and a creative art. The natural sciences, engineering, economics, and our society at large depend heavily on mathematics to provide a descriptive vocabulary for quantitative relationships, a dependable theory that models real-world phenomena, and a mechanism for abstracting ideas which deepen our comprehension of the world around us.
Our Bachelor of Science in Mathematics will help you lay the groundwork for your future in business, education, engineering, government service, science, or virtually any career. As a math major at CSUMB, the faculty will serve as your guide, starting you on a journey into a deep understanding of mathematics. Your mathematical knowledge will allow you to take a problem, abstract its essential features, and provide a framework for finding the best possible solution. This ability will assist you greatly in such diverse fields as economics, law, medicine, graphic arts, and journalism, as well as in the more traditional activities of research and teaching.
You can continue to pursue mathematics formally by enrolling in graduate school and becoming a mathematician. You might teach at a college or university, become a part of a private think tank, or work for one of many engineering and cryptographic companies or a government agency. You could become one of the many people making new and amazing discoveries every year.
You can go into industry. Mathematics majors are hot commodities in the workplace, because employers know that the mathematics degree requires critical, creative, and logical thinking. Many engineering, biotech, actuarial, and computer companies need employees with mathematical knowledge, and many more of the same want employees who know how to think and solve problems. Some math majors become very successful management consultants, doctors, and lawyers for this reason.
You can teach mathematics at the secondary school level. Mathematics teachers are in very high demand around the world, and especially in California.
Mathematics also serves as a good background for many other fields. Some mathematics majors end up becoming physicists, chemists, biologists, engineers, computer scientists, linguists, lawyers, doctors, and managers. Employers in these fields view a background in mathematics as highly desirable, and math graduates often do very well in these professions.
Mathematics is a good pre-med or pre-law major, and math majors enjoy higher acceptance rates to professional schools than most traditional majors such as biology or English.