Some Occupations of Our MACS Graduates
What Our Graduates do with their Mathematics
MACS students are always enthusiastic about their education and their life in the Department. Graduates have earned advanced degrees in mathematics at institutions such as Yale, SUNY Stoneybrook, Stanford, Harvard, U. of North Carolina, RPI and NYU. A disproportionately high number of them won honors at Fairfield graduation ceremonies such as valedictorian, summa and magna cum laude and the Loyola Medal.
After graduation a surprising number of Mathematics majors have spent some time in service organizations such as International Jesuit Volunteers. Some have become teachers in high schools or are teaching and doing research on college campuses. Others have honored Fairfield University by proving successful in jobs traditionally thought to belong to other majors: some are now members of law firms, doctors, owners of construction firms, direct computer advisory firms and some use their skills in such places as the National Bureau of Standards in Boulder. In the table below is a partial list of their occupations illustrating an observation found in the MAA Professional Opportunities Manual: The incidence of mathematicians in any one field is small, but the total number of mathematicians thus occupied is large enough to constitute a professional opportunity not to be overlooked.
Company & Occupation of some MACS majors
| A G Edwards | investment broker |
| A T & T | system engineer |
| Abbott Labs | planning specialist |
| Advo-System | data processor |
| Aetna Insurance | Dir. telecommunications |
| Armstrong Rubber | field evaluator |
| Blue Cross | actuarial analyst |
| Brown Bros Harriman | Dir. security |
| Chubb Insurance | personnel appraiser |
| CIGNA | project consultant |
| Colonial Bank | V P |
| Digital Equipment | Dir. marketing |
| Dobbs Ferry | Dir. parks depart. |
| E F Hutton | senior V P |
| Eaton Info | program manager |
| Electronic Data Sys. | engineer |
| Federal Av. Admin. | Dir. |
| Frank & Hall | actuarial manager |
| G E | senior systems designer |
| Gillette | senior program analyst |
| Houghton Mifflin | senior editor |
| Hughes Aircraft | tactical programs |
| I B M | Dir. information systems |
| I T T | director of public relations |
| Liberty Mutual | underwriter |
| Manhattan Life | group actuary |
| Mitre Corp | consultant |
| Mt. Sinai Hospital | Dir. information |
| Mudd Rose Guthrie | attorney |
| N J Bell | associate manager |
| Naval Research Labs | Sys. programmer |
| Norden | cost manager |
| Northern Trust | portfolio manager |
| Onasor Contracting | president |
| Pentagon | computer analyst |
| Pratt & Whitney | Dir. programming |
| R C A | systems engineer |
| Raytheon | project engineer |
| Rockwell | energy systems |
| S N E T CO | systems analyst |
| Sandoz | group leader of statistics |
| Sikorsky | attribute manager |
| Smith Barney | chief economist |
| T I A A - CREF | advisory officer |
| T R W | applications engineer |
| Travelers | Dir. programming |
| Unimation Robotics | software engineer |
| Wausau | casualty underwriter |
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