For the graduate certificate program, you may take up to two courses before matriculating. For the MS program, you may take up to four courses. If you plan on taking courses in a distance-learning format and take courses in a suggested sequence , this should be fine, but we still suggest you contact the chair. If you are working full time, we usually recommend you only take one course per quarter. This is what most students do in this situation.
Some students take two courses per quarter.
An easier one-course load one quarter may encourage you to try two courses in the next quarter, but each of these later courses may require far more work than you anticipated. GRE scores are not required. There are two reasons. First, our programs do not emphasize research into statistical methods, but rather the application of such methods. We review the applicant's overall grades, as well as grades in calculus and other mathematics courses and when these courses were taken, in order to make recommendations and decisions.