Admissions Information

 

Minimum Requirements

Minimum requirements for admission: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, one year course in calculus, knowledge of matrix theory, and at least two semester courses in basic statistics. Additional knowledge in specialized fields may also be required. Students who have not completed the prerequisites as an undergraduate may have to extend the time required to complete their programs. International applicants must also include official TOEFL scores. For admission to some departmetns, students must also take the GRE or GMAT prior to applying for the Master of Statistics Degree Program.

application information

Application for admission to the program is made through Graduate School Admissions. With the application for admission, the student must select a specific discipline in an existing department. The department becomes the student's major department upon approval of his/her application. Approval for admission is dependent upon the quality of the student's previous work, test scores, the recommendation of the Director of Graduate Studies of the major department, and the approval of the University Statistics Committee.

For application and program information you may browse this website or write to:

Master of Statistics Program
M. Stat. Program Secretary
Department of Educational Psychology
1705 Campus Center Dr. Room 327
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9255
(801) 581-7148

financial assistance

Since the statistics program is administered by the University Statistics Committee which is not a department of the University of Utah, each student must seek financial assistance directly through the department in which the student is admitted. The following is some general information of available support from the departments cooperating in the statistics program. More specific information may be obtained from the appropriate departmental representative of the University Statistics Committee. 

The Department of Mathematics usually supports one student in the statistics program as a teaching assistant.

The Department of Family and Preventive Medicine operates a Health Research Center which sometimes employs biostatistics students.

The Department of Management and the School of Business have limited financial aid resources. However, many students work as teaching assistants and grade papers or meet in tutorial sesssions with students taking the required quantitative sequence for business undergraduates. A few are able to obtain part-time work with the Bureau of Economic and Business Research.

The Department of Economics supports a few graduate students as teaching assistants for their courses. The students apply directly to the Department of Economics.

The Department of Educational Psychology offers a few teaching assistantships.

The Department of Sociology offers a few teaching assistantships.

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