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The main thing I gleaned from undergraduate university (applied math) was how to collect and structure data in such a way that useful information can be derived from it. This has helped me in writing software for image processing programs to doing market research for new products. The key courses in this were signal processing courses along with the math and numerical analysis to understand the analysis techniques. The computer science courses I took in programming languages, compilers, hardware, etc. were very good practice in how to abstract a problem and codify it. I have not used too many of the specific languages or techniques in my professional life however as that tends to more or less keep up with the industry.

The most important things I gleaned from my graduate work about 10 years later (MBA and some more applied math) were how to present interesting data to people in a way that they too could interpret it and derive value from it, and how to manage social networks effectively.