Statistics (PhD)

Graduate School

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Graduate Field

Statistics

Program Description

The Ph.D. program is intended to prepare students for a career in research and teaching at the University level or in equivalent positions in industry or government. A Ph.D. degree requires writing and defending a dissertation. Students graduate this program with a broad set of skills, from the ability to interact collaboratively with researchers in applied fields, through the formulation and computational implementation of novel statistical models and methods to demonstrating mathematically that these methods have desirable statistical properties. Cornell's Ph.D. alumni have gone on to high profile positions in all of academia, industry and government.

Statistics does not offer admission for those interested a terminal master's degree, but we do offer admission for those interested in pursuing a master's leading to a Ph.D.

Concentrations

  • Biometry
  • Decision theory
  • Econometrics
  • Engineering statistics
  • Experimental design
  • Mathematical statistics
  • Probability
  • Sampling
  • Social statistics
  • Statistical computing
  • Stochastic processes