What do math majors do after graduation?

After graduation, Mathematics majors do many different things. In recent years the breakdown has been roughly as follows:

• 15% graduate school in mathematics (e.g. MIT, Harvard, Princeton, Berkeley, Chicago, NYU, Stanford, Columbia, Brown, Univ of Wisconsin, UCSD, UCLA, UIUC, Northeastern, Univ of Washington)
  
  
• 25% graduate school in some other field (e.g. Materials Science, Physics, Computer Science, Statistics, Bioengineering, Philosophy of Science, Linguistics, Ocean Engineering, Business Finance, Acoustics)
  
  
• 25% financial services (e.g. Goldman-Sachs, JP Morgan, Lehman Brothers, Bank of America, Deutche Bank, UBS, DE Shaw)
  
  
• 10% software engineering (e.g. Microsoft, Netcracker)
  
  
• 10% consulting (e.g. Booz Allen Hamilton)
  
  
• 15% other (e.g. lab technician, research assistant, actuary, gap year)

These statistics demonstrate that Mathematics is an exceptionally broad and flexible major at MIT. There are several degree options designed to accommodate a variety of ways mathematics fits into students' plans.

The web offers several good resources to help you explore career options for people with undergraduate mathematics degrees:

• American Math Society
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• MIT Career Office Mathematics Majors Guide