Statistical Science at Duke, Cornell, or Rice??

PPham27
Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:36:21 +0000

Statistics as an undergraduate major is very very new. I believe that in my freshman year, the first seniors were graduating with Statistics as their major. This could be a good thing as you will probably enjoy small class sizes and find your professors more accessible, but the variety of classes may not be great.

Also, Statistics is done almost exclusively as a double major with Mathematics or Computer Science, so you might want to look at those departments as well. I think that you’ll find it necessary to do some coursework in both departments as Statistics is math-intensive by nature, and statistical modeling involves a quite a bit of programming.

I, personally, am a math major and have only taken two courses in the Statistics department and enjoyed both, but I can’t tell you much more about the program.