Workforce success
Concentrating your studies in a statistics major allows you to gain skills of interest to employers and industries. Graduates with a major in statistics are attractive to employers due to their abilities in the following areas:
- Data analysis and use of statistical tools
- Interpretation of research to communicate findings to broad audiences
- Designing research
- Creative problem definition
- Collaboration skills in the design and presentation of research
- Critical thinking in current social problems
- Communicate effectively
- Provide different explanations for social problems
Career options
These skills, and many others acquired in the pursuit of a degree in statistics, are highly transferable to jobs such as:
- Statistician
- Actuary
- Data scientist
- Data analyst
- Database specialist
- Certified SAS programmer
- Secondary educator
- Financial analyst
- Mathematician
Types of employers
- Insurance agencies
- Banks
- Federal, state, county and city government
- Secondary schools
- University research centers
- Hospitals and medical data centers
- Biomedical centers
- Software development firms
- Finance