Mathematics

Mathematics prepares students for a variety of employment opportunities in insurance and financial markets, education, industrial research, and the computer industry.

Mathematics is the group of sciences dealing with quantities, magnitudes and forms, and their relationships and attributes by the use of numbers and symbols. Mathematics prepares students for a variety of employment opportunities in fields such as insurance and financial markets, education, industrial research, and the computer industry. Students may also pursue postgraduate degrees in pure mathematics, statistics, biomathematics, actuarial science, economics and other areas as well.

Planning for College

The University of Scranton encourages a strong college preparatory program in high school with a minimum of four years of English, three years of mathematics, social science and science, and at least two years of a foreign language with additional units taken in acceptable academic areas. You are also encouraged to take as many math courses as your high school has to offer. If you receive a grade of 4 or 5 on the Calculus AB Advanced Placement test, you will receive credit for the first calculus course at The University of Scranton.

Mathematics at The University of Scranton

Mathematics at The University of Scranton offers you:

• courses in calculus, discrete mathematics and linear algebra in the initial stages and advanced courses such as differential equations, vector calculus, chaos and fractals, and statistics by the junior year
• reader courses, which cover topics of special interest not covered in regular courses. In a reader course, you'll learn material from a book and then meet weekly with a faculty member to review the material
• junior and senior level classes with average class sizes of 10-20 students
• a mathematics laboratory equipped with the latest computer technology
• a Faculty Student Research Program if you wish to do outside research. After doing joint research with a faculty member, you'll have the option of writing a paper that may be submitted to a professional journal. Some University of Scranton students have received awards by the Mathematical Association of America

Outcomes

Recently, University of Scranton graduates have found employment as programmers and statisticians with companies such as:

• AT&T
• Prudential Insurance
• Towers Perrin
• Actuarial Science Associates
• Federal Reserve Board

A number of students are currently pursuing postgraduate study at:

• Lehigh University
• Drexel University
• University of Pennsylvania
• Virginia Commonwealth University
• Rutgers University
• University of California-Irvine
• The Pennsylvania State University
• Syracuse University

Finding Out More

For more information, please contact Dr. Jakub Jasinski, Department Chair, The University of Scranton, Scranton, PA 18510. Phone: (570) 941-6102. His e-mail address is jsj303@scranton.edu. You may also visit our website at http://academic.scranton.edu/department/math/