Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics

The PhD in Statistics prepares students professional leadership in statistical research, teaching, and collaboration as faculty at colleges and universities and as researchers at government institutions or in the private sector.

The teaching and research programs of the Department of Statistics range all modern methodological and applied statistics fields. The department's curriculum covers wide ranging topics of theoretical and computational statistics, and wide variety of applications in novel and emerging new type of data sets.

The goal of the program is to train next generation of students who will lead the development of new statistical methodologies, models, computational tools with innovative applications.

A minimum of 72 hours are required. A student's doctoral program committee must approve all course work used to satisfy the credit-hour requirement and may require additional course work beyond these minimums. The doctoral committee may recommend that up to 30 hours of post-baccalaureate graduate credit from an accredited university be transferred toward the total hours required for the doctoral degree, subject to approval by the Graduate School.

Bachelor’s degree from accredited college or University in related area.

Minimum GPA: 3.5 in math and statistics to enter PhD program

Undergraduate courses in statistics are recommended but not required. Consideration also is given to rank in graduating class, trends in grade records, maturity and experience, and other criteria bearing on qualifications.

Before entering the graduate program, a student should have a background that includes three semesters of calculus (or equivalent), one semester of matrix theory, and at least one post-calculus course in probability and statistics. Some required courses at the 7000 level not taken as an undergraduate may be taken for graduate credit as part of the graduate program.

Non-native English speakers must score 80 on the Internet-based TOEFL or 6.5 on the Academic IELTS, PTE score of 59 and Cambridge C1 Advanced score of 180

Application Deadline: Fall deadline: January 15; Spring: October 15