Pennsylvania State University Park Campus

This major helps students with interests in mathematics, computation, and the quantitative aspects of science prepare for careers in industry and government as statistical analysts, or for further graduate training in statistics. The major includes five options: Actuarial Statistics, for students interested in working as actuaries in the insurance or business fields; Applied Statistics, for students interested in a cross-disciplinary program, such as econometrics, or psychometrics; Biostatistics, for students interested in pursuing careers with pharmaceutical companies, research hospitals or other fields in which biological data is analyzed; Graduate Study, for students planning to go to graduate school in a statistics-related field; and Statistics and Computing, for students wishing to combine statistical expertise with programming skills.