1.4 Undergraduate program There are typically about 75 undergraduate majors. Cornell is one of the few universities in the country where a student can major in biometry and statistics at the undergraduate level. Students have a wide variety of interests in addition to biometry and statistics, including biology, business, mathematics, natural resources, and education. The section has no extension duties, but it does operate a free statistical consulting service for the Cornell community. Each faculty member in the Unit and the teaching specialist consults two contact hours per week.
Most clients are graduate students and faculty in the statutory colleges engaged in research.
The services also assists staff and undergraduates from the statutory colleges, as well as clients from most other colleges on campus. Collaborative research projects often develop from the consulting service. Faculty, graduate students and undergraduate majors attend the consulting sessions for training purposes. A total of about 400 appointments per year are offered. The Unit expects to establish its own computer laboratory for graduate research.