The Department of Biostatistics of 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 faculty of the Program in Statistics participate fully in graduate teaching, and the department also cooperates with the Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science, and various programs in substantive areas.
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. Prior to receiving their degrees, many Ph.D. students have had several publications based on research done in collaboration with various faculty members in statistics, management, and medicine. Ph.D. program graduates have found employment at Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western Reserve, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Lehigh, Rochester, RIT, Rutgers, twelve state universities, Bell Laboratories 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.