Statistics, MS

About the Program

The Department of Statistics’ Masters in Applied Statistics prepares students for employment as professional statisticians. It is not designed to be preparation for the Ph.D. degree program, though students completing the program with outstanding records are encouraged to consider the Ph.D. degree. The program is also a suitable masters for doctoral candidates in other fields.

The plan of study should emphasize methodological and computational courses rather than advanced probability or advanced mathematical statistics courses which are more appropriate for the M.S. in Mathematical Statistics.

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Program Requirements

33 Credits Required

Concentrations

Departmental concentrations:

• Applied Statistics Concentration (GR)
• Mathematical Statistics
• Statistics and Computer Science

Interdisciplinary concentrations:

• Computational Finance Concentration (GR)  
• Computational Life Sciences Concentration (GR)  
• Computational Science and Engineering Concentration (GR)  

Additional Information

Oral Examination: For the Master of Science in Applied Statistics, the focus of the oral examination will be a problem-project set distributed to all candidates several weeks before the oral. This will contain problems and projects important to a working statistician that require careful thought and originality. The student will prepare a written report on the assigned part of the problem-project set to submit to the examination committee at least a week before the oral examination.

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