Pursue your passion for problem-solving with a major in Mathematics, and set for high-touch on careers in engineering, statistics, finance, cryptography, aeronautics, scientific inquiry or business.

Deepen your understanding of calculus, modern algebra, physics and statistics, and build your programming and computational skills in applied computer science courses.

Partner with professors to conduct research in your areas of involvement, whether that's biological science or political science. Yous'll do good from the university's state-of-the-art computer infrastructure, software and data storage for innovative inquiry. Take reward of Austin's dynamic technology and innovation scene and the mathematics meetings that happen in the city each semester. Leave St. Edward'due south ready to continue your education in graduate school or immediately begin your career in urban development, market place enquiry, computer technology, government or didactics.

What do our graduates do?

Mathematics majors go on to a multifariousness of careers and graduate schools from St. Edward's. Here's a sample.

  • Data analyst for Apple
  • Procurement annotator for SpaceX
  • Data analyst for the National Security Agency
  • Mechanical designer at Fugro Oil & Free energy Company
  • Full stack programmer at T3
  • Graduate enquiry boyfriend at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  • PhD candidates in Mathematics at The Academy of Texas at Austin, Human being & Statistical Genetics at Washington Academy, and Physics at Vanderbilt University and Example Western Reserve University
  • Chief's students in mathematics at Emory Academy, the ESTEEM Graduate Program for entrepreneurship at the University of Notre Dame, mechanical engineering science at Purdue University and Academy of Texas, statistics and information scientific discipline at the Academy of Houston, and education and school leadership at Harvard University.

The Classroom and Beyond

As a Mathematics major, you'll be part of a community of students and professors who value inventiveness and the courage to tackle hard, unsolved bug. Yous'll build these relationships aslope your problem-solving skills in classes, enquiry projects, competitions and extracurricular clubs.

Experiential Education

A core component of the St. Edward's mathematics program is a 4-semester sequence of enquiry courses. In these classes, you'll conduct open-ended research on unsolved issues individually with kinesthesia members. You'll present your findings at regional and national professional person conferences, where yous'll meet other mathematicians and learn about graduate-school options and careers in your field.

Mathematics majors participate in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition, the preeminent math competition for undergraduates worldwide. A typical competition involves two 3-hour sessions in which students solve 12 bug. Thousands of math majors nationwide score 0 points every year due to the hyper-strict grading scale, and so any positive score is a noteworthy accomplishment. In the past decade, four students from St. Edward'southward take earned a positive score on the exam.

Research

As function of your coursework at St. Edward's, you volition consummate four semesters of research. You will accept the option to farther develop this research and present your findings at conferences and for publication. Recently, Mathematics majors take studied the post-obit:

  • Mathematical analysis of lottery voting
  • Dark energy, the force that causes the universe to aggrandize
  • Detecting whether congressional districts are racially gerrymandered
  • The effects of tempest-related electrical changes on tropospheric ozone levels

Almost math majors travel to at least one conference during their time at St. Edward's. These include:

  • Texas Undergraduate Mathematics Conference
  • Joint Mathematics Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America
  • MAA Texas Section Meeting
  • Mathfest
  • National Briefing for McNair Scholars and Undergraduate Inquiry

Outstanding students accept been selected for Research Experiences for Undergraduates, in which they join the lab of a professor at a major inquiry university over a summer. These experiences help you decide if a career in research is correct for you. In recent years, Mathematics majors have completed these REUs:

  • Deep learning – specifically, instruction computers to place the content of an prototype – at the Centre for Imaging Science at the Rochester Institute of Engineering science
  • Research in the Mathematical Biosciences Constitute Program at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

You'll also have the opportunity to contribute to other research projects led by your professors. During Hurricane Harvey, which battered southern Texas in Baronial 2017, several Mathematics majors, along with Natural Sciences professors and staff, collected meteorological data with weather condition balloons. They released 13 weather condition balloons that collected data used by the National Conditions Services to create forecasts during the hurricane. Some of the students who participated too wrote lawmaking to automate the computation of data collected from the balloons and to visually brandish the data in graphs.

Internships

You'll likewise be encouraged to consummate an internship to use your mathematical skills in a professional context. Mathematics majors have recently interned at the following organizations:

  • Exxon
  • Molecular Rebar Design
  • The Nature Conservancy
  • National Ecological Observatory Network
  • Department of Homeland Security STEM Summer Internship Plan
  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  • SpaceX

As a student in the Mathematics program y'all are afforded access to the funding programs, including paid internships, offered exclusively to STEM students at St. Edward's Academy by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Science (i4). For more information on these programs please visit the Institute for Interdisciplinary Science (i4) on the web.

Student Organizations

The St. Edward's Math Guild is a student chapter of the Mathematics Association of America. Members have traveled together to regional mathematics conferences, presented math concepts and helped with science fairs at local schools, and participated in the global MegaMenger collaborative fractal build. The club besides hosts student and alumni research talks and serves as a forum for social events like Halloween pumpkin carving, bowling, laser tag and pizza parties.

The St. Edward'southward Maker Order attracts tinkerers and programmers who accept worked on projects involving three-D printing, soldering, programming LED strips, and creating fine art through programming.

You tin apply to join the Natural Sciences Living Learning Community your freshman year. Members of the LLC live together in the same residence hall and take a fall-semester scientific discipline class together. They also arrive on campus before school begins to learn research tools and methodologies then they can join enquiry projects early in their college career. LLC members participate in regular community dinners and recreational activities to relax and have fun together.

Instruction Assistantships

Strong students with an interest in instruction and mentoring tin can serve every bit instruction assistants for introductory classes. At St. Edward's, all classes are taught past professors, but student instruction assistants aid tutor and pb report sessions. You'll expand your advice and people skills by helping other students acquire the cloth. If you're interested in didactics, you could also go a tutor in the Math Lab.

Students pursuing a degree in mathematics take ii options to choose from.

i. Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics

This plan provides a comprehensive exploration of mathematics that prepares students for advanced programs or professional careers. This option offers more latitude in the choice of general electives and is appropriate for students seeking a double major or minor.

Major Requirements: The BA in Mathematics requires 57-59 hours of Mathematics major courses, including supporting courses in subjects such as Computer Science or Physics.

General Education Requirements: In addition to the major program requirements, all students must satisfy the full general pedagogy requirements. Talk with your success coach and faculty advisor virtually which courses are right for you lot.

View and download the full degree plan for the BA in Mathematics major (PDF) and a helpful course map (PDF).

two. Bachelor of Science in Mathematics

This program includes the same coursework as the Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics but with two additional semesters of laboratory scientific discipline. This option explores calculus, modern algebra and other advanced topics in their purest course. Additionally, students learn to design and interpret prediction models for various industries, such as aeronautics, urban development and green energy.

Major Requirements: The BS in Mathematics requires 68-lxx hours of Mathematics major courses, including supporting courses in subjects such as Computer Science, Physics and Biological science.

Full general Didactics Requirements: In improver to the major program requirements, all students must satisfy the full general didactics requirements. Talk with your success omnibus and faculty advisor about which courses are right for you.

View and download the full degree program for the BS in Mathematics major (PDF) and a helpful course map (PDF).

Questions well-nigh placement into Mathematics courses? Refer to our placement guide for more than information.

The Section of Mathematics also offers a dual caste option in Mathematics and Technology.

Carol Gee

"Our mathematics kinesthesia members take enquiry backgrounds spanning a variety of fields -- low-dimensional topology, data science, combinatorics, dynamical systems, algebraic geometry, history of mathematics, and mathematics education, to name a few -- only they share in common a passion for instruction undergraduates, mentoring pupil inquiry endeavors, and instilling an appreciation for mathematics in its broadest sense."

– Ballad Gee, Professor of Mathematics and Department Chair

Students minoring in Mathematics must satisfactorily complete the following courses in addition to 6 hours of electives:

Required Courses:

  • Calculus I, Lab
  • Calculus Two
  • Calculus Iii
  • Linear Algebra
  • Differential Equations

Constituent Courses:

  • Discrete Mathematics or Inquiry and Proof
  • MATH 3000+ upper-division courses (excluding 4150 and 4157)

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