I copied this from the University of Northern British Columbia website. I'm claiming ignorance as to copy write laws, but I'm giving them credit, so i think I'm fine. This seems like a good list. I edited this down just a bit. The full page is at http://www.unbc.ca/math-statistics/careers-mathematics
Careers with a Mathematics Degree
Aside from being useful to becoming a High School teacher, a degree in Mathematics is quite useful in the following job areas (where people with a Mathematics degree have been hired).
- It prepares you for an MBA (Masters of Business Administration) degree and become, for example, an Accounting Manager or a Certified Public Accountant.
- Can work as a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
- Can work as a mathematician in places like Rockwell International Corporation.
- With a degree in mathematics you can go to Law School.
- Can work as a project manager in a company like Hewlett-Packard.
- You can go on to an engineering school and become an industrial engineer or work in companies like Westinghouse Wireless Solutions.
- Informations Systems Consultant.
- Manager at a place like Advanced Research Computing Services.
- Can work as an actuary for a life insurance company.
- Senior software engineer (e.g. at Harris Scientific Calculations).
- With a MSc in Mathematics one can work as an aerospace mathematician in space centers like the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
- Can be a mathematics editor for a publisher (e.g. Simon & Schuster, Inc.).
- A computer systems specialist for a chemical company.
- A professional relations representative for a health care company.
- Educational markets manager for companies like Texas Instruments.
- Operations research analyst (e.g. for FedEx or any courier company).
- Director for inventory control.
- Can work in companies like Exxon Production as a research specialist.
- A statistician at a health research laboratory.
- Can work at a Boeing company as instructor and/or consultant on quality control.
- An environmental mathematician for an engineering company.
- With a double major with economics you can become an economist for an oceanographic company.
- Some national laboratories hire mathematicians to analyze problems numerically (Numerical analysis).
- A statistician in a census bureau.
- Telephone companies are known to hire mathematicians, even ones with only a BSc degree.
- Financial analyst.
