Applied Mathematics
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Early Career Income
$110,611
Lifetime Income
$5.70M
Unemployment rate
2.8%
Female share
36.4%
Occupation concentration
47.3%
in top 10 occupations
Remote work share
37.5%
% who double-major
32.1%
BA Graduates from 2024
4,552
-1.5% vs 2023
How Applied Mathematics compares
Ranked against every other major nationally.
90th
percentile
Lifetime income
Higher than 90% of majors
48th
percentile
Unemployment
Lower unemployment than 48% of majors
57th
percentile
Occupation concentration
More concentrated than 57% of majors
Top occupations
- Software Developers, Applications and Systems Software
- Miscellaneous mathematical science occupations, including mathematicians and statisticians
- Miscellaneous managers, including funeral service managers and postmasters and mail superintendents
See the Occupations and Industries tabs for full breakdowns, Double Majors for the most common second fields of degree, and Earnings for the trajectory by age, and Trends for degree production over time.
Degree titles included in this major
These detailed majors are included in the statistics for Applied Mathematics.
- Applied Mathematics, General
- Computational Mathematics
- Computational and Applied Mathematics
- Financial Mathematics
- Mathematical Biology
- Applied Mathematics, Other
Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology