How hard is a Stats degree?

Myrmidon73
Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:04:08 +0000

Every major is different for different people.

Intro stats is really easy; in fact a lot of humanities major take it as their math/science requirement. However, Stat can become pretty difficult, especially at upper/graduate levels.

There are a lot of similarities to it and some pure math (namely some real analysis concepts), but it will probably be better than finance, just because it has better exit opps (grad school in stat, economics, math, in addition to working in finance).