MPS

Career Opportunities:

MPS Graduates have great career opportunities and hiring continues to grow. Jobs are found in the following fields:

• Agriculture and agricultural genetics
• Banking/credit cards/finance/investments
• Biology, including genetics and biotechnology
• Engineering, including electrical/electronic engineering
• Marketing, including Internet marketing
• Medicine and allied health professions
• Manufacturing, including the semiconductor industry
• Pharmaceuticals
• Social research institutions, including NGO's
• State and Federal governments, including the U.S. Census Bureau and other national statistical offices.

Description of type of work MPS grads are currently doing:

• Building tools for portfolio managers and analysts using math/statistics, finance, and computer skills.
• Statistical analysis, accounting based—break even analysis, determining budgets, forecasting
• Data mining and marketing campaign management 
• Econometric analysis, organizing data (using SAS), searching related information, reading academic papers.
• Survey Design, data validation and descriptive statistics
• Data mining, statistical modeling
• Clinical trials, biostatistics
• Data mining, predictive modeling, statistical consulting
• Data manipulation, item response theory, FORTRAN programming, MAINFRAME, UNIX, PC
• SAS programming, statistical data analysis, data formatting, creating clinical report figures

Preliminary Results From the 2007 MPS Graduate Survey:

The median starting salary for 2007 MPS graduates (including bonuses) is $66,389 ($48,000 low and $75,000 high). Graduates are located in both the US and abroad.