Careers and Graduate Study in Statistics
What Can I Do With a Statistics Major?
The employment prospects for graduates in statistics are high, and entry level salaries for starting analysts or data specialists are very good.
- According to the Occupational Outlook Handbook, published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of jobs for statisticians is expected to increase through 2016.
- A 2011 CareerCast.com survey found that Statistician ranked 5th in a ranking of the 200 "best jobs" a college graduate can get today.
- Statistician: The "really sexy job for the 2010s" Google's Chief Economist talks about the need for statisticians.
- A 2005 American Statistical Association survey found that master's level graduates in statistics with little or no experience earned salaries in the $55-70,000 range.
What do statisticians do?
http://amstat.org/careers/whatdostatisticiansdo.cfm
Where do statisticians work?
http://amstat.org/careers/whichindustriesemploystatisticians.cfm
How much do statisticians make?
Check out the current salary reports for statisticians working in business, industry, government, and academia at: http://amstat.org/careers/salaryinformation.cfm
Area Graduate Programs in Statistics
Cornell University
M.P.S. in Applied Statistics
http://www.stat.cornell.edu/mps/
Rochester Institute of Technology
M.S. in Applied Statistics
http://www.rit.edu/kgcoe/cqas/academics/msappliedstatistics.htm
University of Rochester Medical Center
M.A. in Statistics
M.S. in Medical Statistics
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/education/graduate/phd/statistics/
University at Albany School of Public Health
M.S. in Epidemiology and Biostatistics
M.P.H. in Epidemiology and Biostatistics
http://www.albany.edu/sph/epi/index.html
University at Buffalo
M.A. in Biostatistics
http://sphhp.buffalo.edu/biostat/masters/index.php
M.S. in Bioinformatics and Biometrics
http://sphhp.buffalo.edu/biostat/bioinformatics/index.php
Syracuse University
Finding Graduate Programs in Statistics:
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