The field of Statistics offers a variety of exciting career opportunities. Statistics deals with methods for the collection, visualization, modeling and analysis of data. Massive amounts of data are now routinely collected in business, health, environment, engineering and social sciences. Statistics is the science that transforms these data into information that is critical for decision making. Statistics has always played a major role in marketing, public policy, social and health sciences through the design and analysis of surveys. More recently, statistical methods have been an important part of advances in medicine and engineering such as genetics, tomography, speech recognition, computational vision, and so on. Statistics is a vibrant field that is embarking on an even more exciting journey as we move ahead to the data-rich, information era of the 21st century. We invite you to be join us on this journey and share in the excitement!

The Department of Statistics offers an undergraduate major program that consists of courses in applied and theoretical statistics, mathematics and computer science. Two undergraduate minor programs are also available. Click here for the specific details on the Applied Statistics and Statistics Minor Programs. Click here for the general details on Minor programs.

Major Program
The major program is designed to equip students with sufficient background and experience to enable them to implement various standard statistical analyses on real data sets. The program includes a combination of mathematics, probability, and theoretical statistics so a student will understand the bases of modern statistical methodology and to be able to read some of the statistical research literature. The computer courses provide training to enable a student to produce programs to perform various statistical computations. In short, the program is designed to provide the student with sufficient tools to enable him/her to contribute to the research efforts of diverse employers. In addition, the program has been designed in such a way that it will serve as prerequisite for graduate studies in statistics at virtually all major universities.

Prerequisites: Mathematics 215, Mathematics 217, Computer Science 183

Requirements: Apart from the prerequisites, the program consists of at least 30 credit hours in statistics, mathematics, electrical engineering and computer science courses. These 30 hours must include the following:

1. Core Statistics Courses: Stat 350 (4 credits), Stat 413 (4 credits) or Stat 500 (3 credits), Stat 425 (3 credits), Stat 426 (3 credits)
   
   
2. Core Computing Course: Stat 406 (4 credits)
   
   
3. Additional Statistics Courses: (at least one) Stat 415 (4 credits), Stat 470 (4 credits), or Stat 480 (4 credits)
   
   
4. Elective Courses: Stat 404 (2 credits), Stat 408 (4 credits), Stat 430 (4 credits), Stat 449 ( 3 credits), Stat 466 (4 credits), Stat 500+ (3+ credits), EECS 300+ (3+ credits) or any additional course in #3 above, and 300+ level advisor-approved EECS course. Students interested in the application of statistics to various disciplines such as economics, biological sciences, and psychology are also encouraged to take courses in these areas.

Click here to see a listing of our undergraduate statistics courses.

Honors Program
The Department also has an honors concentration in Statistics. Any student who has maintained an overall grade point average of at least 3.2 through the sophomore year may apply for admission to the honors concentration program. Such application is made through the Department's Concentration Advisor. Students in the honors program must complete the regular concentration program above with the following modifications:

• The advanced math course must be Math 451: Advanced Calculus I (3 credits)
• An overall GPA of at least 3.5 is required.
• Elect the Senior Honors Seminar Stat 499 (2-3 credits) and complete a project under the direction of a member of the faculty. Thisrequirement must be arranged and discussed with a Concentration Advisor.

Coming soon to the undergraduate statistics web page will be a summary of honors projects completed by some of our recent undergraduate majors.

A student who successfully completes the concentration program should be well prepared for graduate work in statistics. A brochure describing the Graduate Program in Statistics at The University of Michigan is available at the department office.

Statistics Department Undergraduate Advisors:

Undergraduate Advisors
stat-ugrad-ad@umich.edu

Brenda Gunderson
Co-Advisor
445-A West Hall, 734-615-2830

Kerby Shedden
Co-Advisor
461West Hall, 734-764-0438

Undergraduate Honors Advisors
stat-ugrad-honors-ad@umich.edu

Moulinath Banerjee
451 West Hall, 734-764-2388

Ed Rothman
445-E West Hall, 734-763-2052