Mathematician (ANZSCO 224112)

On the Short-term Skilled Occupation List and Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Mathematician on?

STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Mathematician comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS assesses Mathematician under Group B — four pathways, Bachelor-level, with a not-highly-relevant degree accepted where compensated by extra employment — unlike Actuary, Statistician, Economist, Land Economist and Valuer, its Group A cluster-mates, which each allow only one pathway. Named highly relevant fields are Mathematics (Pure and/or Applied), Financial Mathematics, Operations Research and Mathematical Statistics; Actuarial Science, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science and related fields may be accepted case by case.

Where these applications come unstuck

Mathematician's own page draws its line against Statistician on task content rather than credentials: employment focused on data analysis, prediction, interpretation, survey design or statistical modelling is described as more relevant to Statistician instead. An applicant whose actual day-to-day work is applied statistics rather than pure or theoretical mathematics risks nominating the wrong code even with an on-paper-suitable degree, and the two codes sit on different list combinations, so the choice also changes visa reach.

An honest read on this pathway

Mathematician sits on STSOL and CSOL, reaching six visas including 482 and 186, but not 189 or 485 — fewer visas than Statistician or Actuary, both MLTSSL and CSOL with all eight, despite sitting in the same broad quantitative cluster and drawing from overlapping subject matter and overlapping degree titles across all three codes in this quantitative cluster of occupations.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

Talk it through with a registered agent

Whether nominating Mathematician is your best route depends on your points, experience evidence and timing — exactly what a MARA-registered agent works through in an initial consultation. Describe your situation once through Migratio and compare real consultation quotes from registered agents, free.

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