The Department of Biostatistics in the School of Medicine and Dentistry offers graduate programs leading to the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in statistics and the M.S. degree in medical statistics. A joint M.A. program in mathematics and statistics is also available. The College of Arts, Sciences and Engineering maintains a Program in Statistics with an A.B. degree through the Department of Mathematics.
Students have opportunities for supervised teaching and statistical consulting experience.
The department gives individual attention to each student through intensive advising, extensive small seminars, and research collaboration. Ph.D. program graduates have found employment at Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western Reserve, Harvard, Emory, Johns Hopkins, Lehigh, Rochester, RIT, Rutgers, ten state universities, and numerous industrial concerns. M.A. and M.S. graduates are in various academic programs and in industrial, government, research, and consulting positions. The M.S. program in medical statistics is primarily intended for students who wish to follow careers in the pharmaceutical industry or other health-related professions. The M.S. degree requires one or two years of study, depending upon preparation, and includes an applied project.