Overview

• Mathematics and statistics play an integral role in the world around us and is a big part of business decisions, technical developments, and scientific discoveries. Whether it’s developing a new product, business model, call-centre strategy, medical procedure or video game AI, you often need to gather data, perform testing and analyse performance before revealing the final outcomes. Mathematicians and statisticians get the first peek at the results and are at the forefront of predictions and forecasts in everyday life.
• The logical thinking, problem-solving and interpretive skills you’ll gain while studying UniSQ’s extended Mathematics and Statistics major are highly valued by employers across many job sectors. 
• You’ll examine the fundamentals of pure and applied mathematics, theoretical and applied statistics, mathematical modelling and operations research, and learn how to use computational methods as an aid to the processes of analysis, modelling and decision-making.
• Establish a unique university qualification by combining your major with a second Bachelor of Science major (such as Environment & Sustainability, IT, Astronomical and Space Sciences or Geospatial Science perhaps) or a set of minors and elective courses to suite your interests and career goals.

Further study

Interested in gaining further knowledge and research skills in this field? After successfully completing the Bachelor of Science, you can go on to study the Bachelor of Science (Honours), the Master of Science, or Master of Data Science.

Career outcomes

• Occupations to consider for a mathematics and statistics graduate include data scientist or data analyst, astronomer, investment analyst, research scientist, sound engineer, secondary school teacher, meteorologist or environmental mathematician, statistician, or computational scientist, to name a few.
• Graduates with mathematical and statistical skills can find work in the airline and defence industry, communication and advertising companies, insurance and finance, chemical industries, weather bureau, space and engineering industries, universities and research centres, manufacturing and transport etc.