Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Downey Scholarships available for incoming Fall 2026 Freshmen
Becky Brusky Receives 2025 Outstanding Faculty Service Learning Award
Dr. Mahboub Baccouch awarded Isaacson Professorship
Dr. Uhing member of UNO Team Awarded $2M NSF Grant to Support Income-Eligible STEM Majors
Dr. Vitor, Nebraska Deterrence Lab, Awarded $600,000 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Grant
"Mathematics is one of the essential emanations of the human spirit - a thing to be valued in and for itself, like art or poetry." - Oswald Veblen
The Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Degree Program prepares students for employment in the private or public sector, graduate school, and scientific research. Studying Mathematics naturally develops quantitative thinking and analytic problem solving, skills with universal application. Demand will always be high for individuals with these universal skills to solve society’s diverse and complex problems.
Students majoring in Math have two choices: the Concentration option or the No Concentration option. No Concentration students choose their own upper division courseload, while Concentration students take a set of upper division courses chosen by the department to best fit their Concentration. Students can choose to concentrate in Applied Mathematics, Data Science, Mathematics Education, Pre-Actuarial Math, Operations Research, Statistics, Computational Mathematics, and Pure Mathematics. Students can complete one Concentration or several.