MS Statistics计划为学生提供行业或政府职位的准备，同时为他们提供从事统计学或生物统计学博士学位课程的必要应用和理论背景。MS Stat学生在诸如大数据，时间序列，统计遗传学，生物信息学，计算统计，数据可视化，实验设计和生物统计学等领域进行研究。几乎所有MS Statistics项目都涉及与其他领域研究人员的合作，包括生态，农业，遗传学，癌症，金融，公共卫生，营养，教育和工程。
The MS Statistics program prepares students for positions in industry or government, while providing them with the necessary applied and theoretical background to pursue PhD programs in statistics or biostatistics. MS Stat students conduct research in areas such as Big Data, time series, statistical genetics, bioinformatics, computational statistics, data visualization, experimental design and biostatistics. Nearly all MS Statistics projects involve collaboration with researchers in other fields, including ecology, agriculture, genetics, cancer, finance, public health, nutrition, education and engineering.