the degree is difficult to earn, needs a lot of hard work...same like maths degree...

some outsider people may think it only involves + - x / , but it's not...and only maths/stats ppl can understand the real suffering....in my uni, my maths degree was dubbed as one of the most difficult program apart from medicine and engineering...

yet, i can see in malaysia, not many companies are hiring mathematician or statistician....they prefer engineer, accounting, business etc....but they forget that mathematics is the oldest science and almost all disciplines today are rooted from mathematics...

tata88 was right...it is simply not in demand, at least not in malaysia...those who graduate with maths degree and still love very much of maths, will usually continue to do research and be lecturer or professor at universities...

nonetheless, i know of someone who has a maths phd but is very successful and highly paid at an MNC as a software consultant...perhaps the company pay for her high intelligence and logical/reasoning skills

p/s: logic & reasoning is part of mathematics ;-)