Job oppurtunities for applied physics or applied math...

[Bkas]

I'm starting college as a freshman in the fall, and I'm still trying to decide what I want to do.

Right now, I think I want to double major with a B.S. in Physics (applied) and a B.S. in Computational and Applied Mathematics. I have full intention on going on to grad school and pursuing a PhD in one of the subjects, but I have a question...what kind of job outlook could one with a graduate degree in either field expect? I'd like to go into research in the nanotech field, and I'm sure I can make some money if I do something entrepreneurial. But...what kind of salary can researchers expect to make? Or...what kind of employment oppurtunities are available for applied physics or computational and applied math?

Thanks.

 

[Brutuskend]

Well we just hired a girl fresh out of school with a physics degree.

(this is a bicycle shop!! So........ good luck!)

 

[Bkas]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Well we just hired a girl fresh out of school with a physics degree.

(this is a bicycle shop!! So........ good luck!)

I don't think I'll have too much trouble finding a job (especially relative to the girl you cited) because I won't be entering the workforce until after grad school; even if I do, I'm attending a pretigious top 20 (by U.S. News) university, so i'm sure I can find a connection for a job if I so desire to seek one out.

Anyone else? I'm sure Applied math should turn something up, no? I could always enter finance...

 

[Entity]

Have you thought about working for Google?

http://www.google.com/jobs/great-people-needed.html

Developing efficient implementations for large-scale mathematical problems, such as running Google's Pagerank? algorithm on a graph of 3 billion nodes and 20 billion edges.

Developing algorithms and heuristics to keep our index up to the minute by finding and reindexing almost all web pages within minutes of when they change or they are created.

Efficiently and rapidly searching our full index of more than 2 billion web pages more than 150 million times per day (i.e. more than three thousand queries per second at peak traffic times), plus providing search over our archives of 20 years of Usenet data (700M+ messages) and 320M+ images.

Rob

 

[cchen]

Where are you going to school? I'm going to Columbia and I'm probably gonna minor in Applied Math.

Job market is pretty big for an applied math major, since you can work in any of the sciences or anything that deals with mathematical models.

 

[Bkas]

Originally posted by: cchen
Where are you going to school? I'm going to Columbia and I'm probably gonna minor in Applied Math.

Job market is pretty big for an applied math major, since you can work in any of the sciences or anything that deals with mathematical models.

Cool.

I'm going to Rice University; actually turned down Cornell, Columbia and Hopkins to go there because of merit scholarship money (and it's still a fine school).

Maybe I will pursue the applied math thing...care to shed some light on what kind of market oppurtunities are available to applied math people?

 

[Bkas]

I guess I'll bump this for the primetime crowd, if that's permitted.