How many mathematics majors are there? What are their career aspirations?
Rose-Hulman Mathematics: There are about 25-30 primary mathematics majors spread over all four years and an additional 30-40 students taking mathematics as a second major. With the encouragement of our new president, we will be increasing the number of students coming to Rose-Hulman to be a math major over the next few years. We have recently required a senior project or thesis of all mathematics majors. We expect that requirement will increase the engagement of the mathematics faculty with our majors. Many non-majors are interested in mathematics and so we are blessed with strong enrollments in the upper division courses. Additional evidence of this interest in mathematics is the strong participation of our students in our faculty-student seminar both as speakers and audience. Primary mathematics majors either go to graduate school or go immediately into business, industry, or government. Our program is designed to accommodate both choices. There is no graduate program in mathematics.
