Computational Mathematics at Boston University

If you plan to study computational mathematics, take a look at what Boston University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Boston U is located in Boston, Massachusetts and approximately 32,718 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Computational Mathematics section at the bottom of this page.

Boston U Computational Mathematics Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computational Math

Boston U Computational Mathematics Rankings

The computational math major at Boston U is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Computational Mathematics. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Computational Math Student Demographics at Boston U

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the computational math majors at Boston University.

Boston U Computational Mathematics Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 53% of computational math bachelor's degrees went to men and 47% went to women. The typical computational math bachelor's degree program is made up of only 35% women. So female students are more repesented at Boston U since its program graduates 12% more women than average.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Boston University with a bachelor's in computational math.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	8
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	5
International Students	15
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Related Majors

• Financial Mathematics

Careers That Computational Math Grads May Go Into

A degree in computational math can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MA, the home state for Boston University.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Natural Sciences Managers	4,040	$183,490

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Cmcnicoll at English Wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.