[6/19/18 update: The updated tables for universities awarding Master's Degrees in Statistics and Biostatistics from 2003-Most Recent Year (2017) can be found here:
[2/26/18 update: See this December 2017 Q&A with Data Science/Analytics Programs , April 2017 Q&A with Data Science/Analytics Programs and this June 2017 Q&A with Data Science/Analytics Programs
[Update 8/23/17: The tables below are now presented much more cleanly and neatly at this ASA webapge: http://www.amstat.org/asa/education/Statistics-and-Biostatistics-Degree-Data.aspx.
9/29/15 update: See the report of the 2014 data release in this Amstat News article and the accompanying blog entry. The reports include breakouts for biostatistics degrees, proportion of degrees awarded to women, links to tables, and lists of universities granting undergraduate and graduate degrees in statistics and biostatistics for 2003-2014. No changes were made to the blog entry below. See also the September 2014 Amstat News piece on the 2013 statistics degree data: Bachelor’s Degrees in Statistics Surge Another 20%.
2/6/17 update: You may also be interested in this 2016 blog entry looking at Master's programs in data science/analytics: The Emergence of Master's in Analytics and Data Science Programs]
The tables below show the U.S. universities granting the most Master's degrees over the last three years. The first table is for statistics and the second for biostatistics. The data are from NCES IPEDS.
For statistics programs, there are 133 universities that granted Master's degrees in 2010-2012; 51 for biostatistics.
See also the blog entry, Largest Doctorate Programs in Statistics and Biostatistics.
|
Statistics Master's Degrees |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2011-2013 |
2003-2013 |
| 1 |
Columbia University in the City of New York |
242 |
288 |
294 |
824 |
1943 |
| 2 |
Rutgers University-New Brunswick |
47 |
62 |
79 |
188 |
576 |
| 3 |
California State University-East Bay |
49 |
43 |
55 |
147 |
354 |
| 4 |
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
44 |
47 |
55 |
146 |
407 |
| 5 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
46 |
36 |
61 |
143 |
373 |
| 6 |
Cornell University |
35 |
51 |
54 |
140 |
346 |
| 7 |
Stanford University |
39 |
30 |
54 |
123 |
414 |
| 8 |
George Washington University |
20 |
29 |
67 |
116 |
175 |
| 9 |
Ohio State University-Main Campus |
45 |
43 |
25 |
113 |
486 |
| 10 |
Michigan State University |
44 |
36 |
25 |
105 |
341 |
|
Subtotal |
611 |
665 |
769 |
2045 |
5415 |
|
Total |
1919 |
2026 |
2305 |
6250 |
17495 |
Table 1: Universities granting the most Master's Degrees in Statistics for the academic years 2010-2011, 2011-2012, & 2012-2013. For the full list, click here.
|
Biostatistics Master's Degrees |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2011-2013 |
2003-2013 |
| 1 |
Columbia University in the City of New York |
30 |
31 |
37 |
98 |
238 |
| 2 |
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
29 |
25 |
38 |
92 |
284 |
| 3 |
Boston University |
15 |
19 |
21 |
55 |
201 |
| 4 |
Emory University |
16 |
15 |
18 |
49 |
110 |
| 5 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
11 |
21 |
15 |
47 |
174 |
| 6 |
Harvard University |
12 |
11 |
24 |
47 |
118 |
| 7 |
University of California-Los Angeles |
12 |
13 |
12 |
37 |
166 |
| 8 |
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities |
14 |
14 |
6 |
34 |
184 |
| 9 |
University of Washington-Seattle Campus |
13 |
8 |
10 |
31 |
131 |
| 10 |
University of Iowa |
8 |
7 |
12 |
27 |
119 |
|
Subtotal |
160 |
164 |
193 |
517 |
1725 |
|
Total |
359 |
386 |
463 |
1208 |
3298 |
Table 2: Universities granting the most Master's Degrees in Biostatistics for the academic years 2010-2011, 2011-2012, & 2012-2013. For the full list, click here.
For previous posts/articles on the growth of statistics degrees, AP Statistics, and postdocs, see the following (noting that #'s 2 & 3 include data on the number of women receiving degrees or the number of females taking AP Statistics):
- Statistical Science Degree Comparisons (updated through 2012), ASA Community Blog Entry, December 20, 2013.
- AP Statistics Sustains Strong Growth in 2013, ASA Community Blog Entry, October 4, 2013.
- Undergrad Statistics Degrees Continue Large Increases in 2012, Amstat News, October, 2013.
- Postdoc Numbers Small but on the Rise for Statistics, ASA Community Blog Entry, September 9, 2013
- Growing Numbers of Stats Degrees, Amstat News, May, 2013.
- See also this April 2007 Amstat News article, "Statistical Sciences Produces High Percentage of Female New Doctoral Recipients," by Rosanne Desmone: http://www.amstat.org/misc/2007_DesmoneFemalesInStats.pdf
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