From this base, department graduates enter graduate schools in mathematics, computer science, or related disciplines. Others undertake careers or advanced training in actuarial science, teaching, economics, business, and statistics.
No matter their eventual fields of service, while at Wheaton mathematics and computer science students study and work in classes, individually, and in small groups with a department faculty whose professional interests include fractal geometry and chaos theory, crypto-systems, computing, applied mathematics, probability and statistics, knot theory, math analysis, and modern algebra.