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Graduate Success Stories

Graduates of our Masters program continue to find abundant employment opportunities and many go on to PhD programs. Our faculty keep in touch with our graduates and love to hear about new jobs and education advancements. Many of our graduate success stories are listed below. They can also be found in our alumni newsletter Numberlines. If you have a success story that you would would like to share, please send it to math.dgs@d.umn.edu.
Where are they now?
2011-2012 Graduates
| Data Analyst, Target, Minneapolis |
Lindsay Baun |
| Georgia Health Sciences University, PhD program in Biostatistics |
1 graduate |
| Modeling Analyst, Home Depot, Boca Raton, FL |
1 graduate |
| Medical University of South Carolina, PhD program |
Lin Dai |
| Montana State University, Bozeman Masters program in Economics | 1 graduate |
| University of South Carolina, Columbia PhD program in Statistics |
Zizhen Wu |
| UW-Milwaukee, PhD program in Mathematics |
Michael Cook |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, PhD program in Electrical Engineering | 1 graduate |
2010-2011 Graduates
| George Mason University, Ph.D. program in Mathematics |
Amy Schmidt |
| Instructors, UMD | Eric Erdmann, Tom Sjoberg |
| Medical College of Wisconsin, PhD program in Biostatistics |
Junmin Shi |
| Merchandise Planner, Maurices corporate office, Duluth |
Amy Virta |
| Math Teacher, Holy Rosary School Instructor, University of Wisconsin-Superior |
Kristin Riesgraf |
| Model Validation Analyst, U.S. Bank | Tyler Kjorstad |
| Student Success Advocate, Laura MacArthur/True North Americorps |
Ann Litersky |
| Secondary Math teacher | 1 graduate |
| Enrichment Tutor, Math Corps |
1 graduate |
2009-2010 Graduates
| Carnegie Mellon University, Ph.D. program in Computer Science |
1 graduate |
| Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Ph.D. program in Biostatistics | 1 graduate |
| Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Ph.D. program in Mathematical Sciences | 1 graduate |
| John Hopkins University Ph.D. program in Computer Science |
1 graduate |
| Lehigh University, Ph.D. program in Industrial and Systems Engineering |
1 graduate |
| Northwestern University Ph.D. program in Mechanical Engineering |
1 graduate |
| University of Rochester Ph.D. program in Biostatistics |
1 graduate |
| Rutgers University Ph.D. program in Industrial and Systems Engineering |
1 graduate |
| UCLA School of Management Masters program in Financial Engineering |
1 graduate |
| University of Georgia Ph.D. program in Statistics |
1 graduate |
| Software Development Engineer for Microsoft in Bellevue, WA | 1 graduate |
| United Health Group | 1 graduate |
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