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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.