Specializations in Applied Mathematics

MAJOR

DEFINITIONS/ DESCRIPTION

SPECIALIZATIONS

Accounting

Accounting is the measurement, statement or provision of assurance about financial information primarily used by managers, investors, tax authorities and other decision makers to make resource allocation decisions within companies, organizations, and public agencies.

Accounting (introductory, intermediate, and advanced)
Auditing
Cost accounting
Financial-statement analysis
Government and nonprofit accounting
Tax accounting
 

Actuarial Science

Actuarial science applies mathematical and statistical methods to finance and insurance, particularly to risk assessment

Calculus
Macroeconomics
Microeconomics
Probability
Risk theory
Statistics
Theory of interest
 

Mathematics

Mathematics is a body of knowledge center on such concepts as quantity, structure, space and change and also academics discipline that studies them.

Combinatorics
Differential equation
Discrete mathematics
Elementary statistics
Linear algebra
Modern algebra
Modern geometry
Number theory
 

Statistics

Statistics is a branch of mathematical science pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data

Calculus
Experimental design
Probability theory
Regression analyst
Sample survey theory
Statistical computing
Statistical methods
Statistical theory
 

Biometrics

Biometry involves the application of statistics, mathematics, computing, and other quantitative methods to phenomena and problems in the life sciences, including both theory and practice.

Bio mathematics
Modern nonparametric statistics
statistical genetics
computational statistics
 

Computational sciences

This option is appropriate for students interested in areas of mathematics involving computational applications to science and engineering, including numerical methods for differential equations, simulations, symbolic algebra, computational geometry, and mathematical graphics. The program emphasizes both the underlying mathematics and the use of computers in exploring and solving applied problems

Advanced course in differential equations
Advanced course in algebra or analysis