The field of statistics offers challenging opportunities to students interested in both mathematics and some branch of the sciences. Statisticians are in demand in the physical sciences and engineering, in the biological and health sciences, in the social and environmental sciences, in agriculture, and in business.
Graduates work in industry, government, and academia.
Read on for additional information about our program. Courses have been given since 1915. The first M.S. degree was granted in 1931, the first Ph.D. in 1940. The Statistical Laboratory, the first statistical center of its kind in the nation, was established in 1933 as a research and service institute. The Department of Statistics was formed in 1947 as a separation from the Mathematics Department.