Statistics Concentration

This concentration offers a rigorous and comprehensive curriculum designed to equip students with the practical skills and theoretical foundations that are needed to excel in fields strongly utilizing data analysis skills. The Statistics Concentration is structured to provide students with a strong mathematical foundation while emphasizing methods, applications, and statistical theory. Students have the opportunity to engage in coursework covering a wide range of topics, including probability, inference, regression, classification, multivariate analysis, machine learning, data visualization, and many others. Besides being a statistician, a degree in Statistics opens doors to a wide range of career opportunities in fields such as:

Data science
Actuarial science
Biostatistics
Risk analysis
Financial modeling
Market research
Business analytics
Policy analysis
Academic research
Teaching

The majority of the coursework for this concentration is within the mathematics department. For those looking for a major that includes cross-disciplinary electives in computer science and/or economics, they might consider the CAMS: Applied Statistics major instead.

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