统计系的所有学位课程（精算科学除外）均为公开报名。要攻读精算科学专业，学生必须通过精算学会（SOA）的一项考试，通常是FM考试，然后才能宣布精算科学专业。统计人员可帮助确定采样和数据收集方法，监控研究的进行和数据的处理，并就结果的优缺点提供建议。他们必须了解不确定性的本质，并能够在特定的统计应用中得出结论。<br> <br>职业机会-统计系提供的课程和学位旨在使学生掌握决策技能适用于在工业组织，政府机构，保险公司，制药公司，大学和研究机构中担任专业统计学家的职业。统计人员获得的技术工具在许多领域都非常有用
Statisticians in business find information in big data and design experiments to model, predict, and optimize business outcomes. Students who are quantitatively oriented and interested in business, government, and health are well prepared by this emphasis. The Applied Statistics and Analytics emphasis includes a greater number of statistical analysis and data management courses and fewer of the mathematics courses required for graduate study in statistics.<br><br>Program Outcomes: <br>Skill in fitting statistical models<br>Graduates of the program will demonstrate the ability to analyze data by appropriately fitting, assessing, and interpreting a variety of statistical models<br><br>Communication Skills<br>Graduates of the program will write technical reports and make technical presentations containing statistical results, and work in teams to demonstrate the consulting skills of a professional statistician