The Department of Mathematics offers four majors:
Math Education Program
The Mathematics Education degree fulfills all the requirements for a state teaching certificate in addition to providing the student with a strong background in mathematics. Students who choose this major are well prepared either to enter the teaching field immediately upon graduation or to go to graduate school. The Mathematics Education major takes thirty-one semester hours of mathematics, thirty-three semester hours of education, three semester hours of statistics and three hours of computer science.
Math Program
The Mathematics major has been designed to accommodate a wide variety of career options and to encourage students to pursue a second area of interest by means of a double major, a double minor, or a combination of concentrations. A major in Mathematics coupled with a strong minor in accounting, biology, business, chemistry, computer science, economics, physics, psychology, sociology, or statistics uniquely fits one for a number of career choices as well as for graduate school. A Mathematics major takes 42 semester hours of mathematics, three hours of statistics and three hours of computer science.
The Bachelor of Science in Statistics Program is designed for students who wish to study theoretical statistics or apply statistics to many fields other than just those in healthcare, for example business and economics. Students who choose this track take all their courses for the bachelor's degree on Xavier's campus. The program requires thirty semester hours in statistics, twenty-four semester hours of mathematics, three semester hours of computer programming, and three semester hours of data science.
The Bachelor of Science in Statistics and Biostatistics Accelerated Program is offered in cooperation with the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans (LSUHSC). This program offers Xavier students the opportunity to obtain both a B.S. degree from Xavier in Statistics and an M.S. degree in Biostatistics from LSUHSC in only five years. The Program contains 27 semester hours of mathematics and 59 semester hours of statistics along with a computer programming course. Forty-four (44) of these 59 hours in statistics are taken at LSUHSC and are credited toward both the B.S. degree in Statistics at Xavier and the M.S. degree from LSUHSC.