Rice University

Statistics coursework acquaints students with the role played in the modern world by probabilistic and statistical ideas and methods. Students grow familiar with both the theory and the application of techniques in common use as they are trained in statistical research.

At the undergraduate level, the department offers two undergraduate degrees: the Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree and the Bachelor of Science (BS) degree. The Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree is designed for those students interested in applied statistics while the Bachelor of Science (BS) degree is intended for students desiring to pursue research positions or graduate study in Statistics.

The graduate program has areas of specialization in applied probability, Bayesian methodology, bioinformatics, biomathematics, biostatistics, computational finance, data visualization, environmental health, functional data analysis, graphical models, large and complex data, machine and statistical learning, networks, neuroscience, nonparametric function estimation, social sciences, statistical computing, spatial statistics, stochastic processes, systems biology, time series analysis, and urban analytics. Statistics is a cornerstone of the campus wide data science initiative.