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Mathematics and Statistics

Mathematicians are in demand in a wide range of fields, business, health, economics, engineering, market research, physical sciences and social sciences.

Some of these careers pathways include:

  • academia and education, mathematics secondary teacher
  • consultation for government and private sector
  • security or defence areas
  • analyst, such as air-traffic flow at airports
  • majors banks, such as calculate the optimum distribution of bank branches
  • set rates for the insurance industry
  • predictive modelling, such as industrial inventory control
  • meteorology / oceanography
  • work as part of a medical team on ground breaking research
  • finance, accounting, banking, insurance
  • investment, portfolio optimisation
  • stock market prediction/.analysis
  • policy advisor on quantitative analyst
  • strategic planning
  • information systems and technology research and development
  • computing and software design