MS in Statistics Master's Courses
At UChicago, all graduate-level statistics courses are open to master’s students, so you can take statistics master’s courses that fit your research interests and map to your career goals. Here, you have unparalleled access to advanced topics. Master’s students are fully integrated into the academic activities of the department alongside PhD students.
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Gain Experience as a Statistics Consultant
As a UChicago student, you have the opportunity to engage in hands-on experiences to complement your statistics master’s courses.Through the consulting program, you’ll join with a group of Statistics PhD students to serve as consultants to answer statistical questions from university researchers. You will have opportunities to solve real world statistical issues arising from various disciplines such as natural sciences, social sciences, biostatistics, machine learning and AI, pattern recognition, scientific computing, and more.
How it Works:
You and several Statistics PhD students will form one of the 4-5 teams, holding weekly statistics clinic office hours, where university researchers bring to you their statistical issues arising from research. You and your team will serve as statistics consultants to provide suggestions. You will also attend the weekly group meeting supervised by faculty members, where your team will present the consulting projects of the week to invite discussions. Then your team will send reports to researcher clients to summarize your suggestions.
Learn more about the Consulting Program
Produce Original Statistics Research
Apply what you’ve learned in statistics master’s courses and expand upon your interests with a master’s paper. You’ll study a problem in depth on a subject chosen by you in collaboration with your faculty advisor. All Master's students give a seminar on their paper on completion of the program.
"Coursework that introduced me to Bayesian methodology and convex optimization inspired my research focus and have introduced me to tools I use regularly. The thesis component of the MS program gave me the experience of working on an independent research project and the inspiration to undertake a Ph.D. The consulting program exposed me to the more practical side of statistical modeling which I’ve found useful in multiple applied research projects."
-Rick Presman, SM'20