Financial Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University

Every financial mathematics school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the financial math program at Carnegie Mellon University stacks up to those at other schools.

Carnegie Mellon is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and approximately 13,519 students attend the school each year.

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

Carnegie Mellon Financial Mathematics Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Financial Math
• Master’s Degree in Financial Math

Carnegie Mellon Financial Mathematics Rankings

The financial math major at Carnegie Mellon is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Financial 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.

Financial Math Student Demographics at Carnegie Mellon

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the financial math majors at Carnegie Mellon University.

Carnegie Mellon Financial Mathematics Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 42% of financial math bachelor's degrees went to men and 58% went to women. The typical financial math bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% women. So female students are more repesented at Carnegie Mellon since its program graduates 21% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 19% more racial-ethnic minorities in its financial math bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

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

Carnegie Mellon Financial Mathematics Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 57% of financial math master's degrees went to men and 43% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 37% women graduate in financial math each year. Carnegie Mellon does a better job at serving the female population as it supports 6% more women than average.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a master's in financial math.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	1
International Students	81
Other Races/Ethnicities	10

Related Majors

• Computational Mathematics

Careers That Financial Math Grads May Go Into

A degree in financial 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 PA, the home state for Carnegie Mellon University.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Financial Analysts	11,980	$93,870
Natural Sciences Managers	4,480	$147,810
Financial Specialists	3,370	$74,880
Mathematical Science Professors	2,460	$88,390
Economists	610	$87,630

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 Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.