专注于统计学的学生将获得概念，计算和数学工具，用于量化不确定性和从多种应用中产生的复杂数据的意义.Statistics提供了定量方法来分析数据，在不确定性下做出理性决策，设计实验以及对随机和可变性进行建模世界。统计学的理论核心被人类学，天文学，生物学，商业，化学，计算机科学，经济学，教育，工程，环境科学，流行病学，金融，政府，历史，法律等领域的众多应用领域所包围，语言学，医学，物理学，心理学，社会学等等。《纽约时报》的一篇文章在标题为“今天的毕业生，一个字：统计”的文章中指出了对统计学家的日益增长的需求。
Students concentrating in Statistics acquire the conceptual, computational, and mathematical tools for quantifying uncertainty and making sense of complex data arising from many applications. Statistics provides quantitative methods for analyzing data, making rational decisions under uncertainty, designing experiments, and modeling randomness and variability in the world. Statistics has a theoretical core surrounded by a vast number of domains of application in fields such as: anthropology, astronomy, biology, business, chemistry, computer science, economics, education, engineering, environmental sciences, epidemiology, finance, government, history, law, linguistics, medicine, physics, psychology, sociology, and many others. A New York Times article pointed out the increasing demand for statisticians in an article with the headline: For Today's Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics.