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Yeah it's too early to worry about jobs. Just do what you are interested in. Science graduates are in high demand in "non-conventional" industries such as management consulting, because our research and problem solving skills are far more superior. If you do maths/stats and/or physics, you may...

The two maths departments have very different research directions and strengths, so it's rather difficult to compare. There will be a lot of complementary sharing of honours courses between the two in the near future, so the qualities are really very similar.

It depends on the individual schools. In IT a good 3rd year student can get a tutoring job, whereas in many other subject areas you need to be doing at least honours.

BSc (Adv Maths) is merely a marketing device to attract more ppl into maths. They could have easily introduced BSc (Adv Biology) or BSc (Adv Bludging) or whatever else they wanna promote. BSc (Adv) is more flexible, in case you wanna dump maths and major in a related subject area (e.g. physics)...

That's exactly right. A significant portion of maths/physics grads get into the finance area. An honours year is probably preferable if you wanna get into quant roles.

Hehe that's a bit overly pessimistic. A pass degree in science, although isn't much, is at least marginally better than an arts degree and the like. And seeing that most ppl do not go onto honours, presumably most of them will have landed a job somewhere. Whether they are the sort of quality you...

Hehe good one §eraphim :) Also add BComm(Finance)/BSc(Financial Maths) at USyd. Finance will give you the knowledge about the markets, whereas maths equips you with the technical knowhows. There should be a program of similar structure at UNSW. Jobs you will get out of all these? Sample a few...

I don't think physics is that bad. Physics grads stay at uni because they want to, not because they can't find jobs outside. Their credentials (modelling skills etc) aren't too much different from applied maths ppl, and probably more hands on. The physics department has got more money, btw...

Honours in applied mathematics with lots of stats contents.

Tutorial is a tutorial ... seminar can be a mini lecture with some more interaction perhaps.

There is an idiot here who's proud of himself :rolleyes: not going to argue about this, not worth it.

For maths I think they hold a prize ceremony in April/May.

hehe maybe. but I heard that this guy got an IMO gold representing a southeast asian country, not australia. can't remember his name though.

Haha if I am not mistaken there is someone else carrying an IMO gold medal besides these two legends. He just finished 2nd year. Not too sure what Peter and Stewart got in 1st year, but I heard that Stewart got a string of 100's under his belt in 4th year :rolleyes:

Wow that's just insane :rolleyes: The last time I saw such results, they were produced by an IMO gold medalist. What sort of maths are you interested in? Hell yeah that's pretty low by laurie's standards :)