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eastwind8... eastwind8...
 
December 16, 2008 06:09 AM

Which university has the best Statistics Ph.D. program?

Which US university has the best Statistics Ph.D. program? I've already checked US News for their rankings, so I'm actually looking for some other perspectives.
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offthedome offthedome
 
 December 16, 2008 08:53 PM
Stanford, University of California at Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, and Ohio State University.

Ohio State University is pretty good, but it isn't the best. I just came from there. I was in the math department, which is separate from the stats department. Ohio State has consistently ranked up there in statistics, and is good at graduating students, which is actually the MOST important part of a graduate school.
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• Thanks for listing multiple schools -- although I do believe that the most important part of a graduate school is the relative strength of their faculty group.


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offthedome offthedome
 
December 21, 2008 04:31 AM
I used to agree with that. Then I went to grad school. Generally I've found that if you have two schools that are almost tied to you, it's better to go to the one that graduates the most students on time. This is especially true in statistics. Most of my advisors, as well as my fellow classmates, have agreed with that. Honestly, it's the thing that seems most irrelevant now, but in the end, when you're actually there in the middle of the muck, it becomes extremely relevant.

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wboswell wboswell
 
December 16, 2008 06:16 AM
I would think MIT has a stellar statistics program; probably pretty hard to get into.

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tony54321 tony54321
 
December 16, 2008 08:44 AM
UC Berkeley by a mile.

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zlp2008 zlp2008
 
December 17, 2008 04:29 AM
Stanford and UC Berkeley are consistently the best in the world. MIT does not even have a statistics department, but some professors in mathematics and OR departments are doing statistics research.

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