SMU统计科学系和达拉斯德克萨斯大学西南医学中心（UTSW）的临床科学系提供生物统计学博士学位。该学位由SMU授予，但该计划的学生同时在SMU和UTSW上课程。学生拥有扎实的数学和统计学基础，例如博士学位。在统计科学课程中学习，但他们也选修了一些课程来为生物统计学的研究事业做准备。在课程的第三年和第四年，学生在一名或多名SMU老师的合作下与UTSW的研究人员一起工作。
The Department of Statistical Science at SMU and the Department of Clinical Sciences at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (UTSW) offer a Ph.D program in Biostatistics. The degree is conferred by SMU, but students in this program take courses at both SMU and UTSW. Students attain a strong mathematical and statistical foundation such as that provided in the Ph.D. in Statistical Science curriculum, but they also take courses that prepare them for a research career in Biostatistics. During the third and fourth years of the curriculum, students work with researchers at UTSW under the collaboration of one or more SMU faculty mentors.