Department of Statistics

Fall 2024 MS application deadline is June 1st!   Contact stat@ucr.edu for more information.

The Master's Program has a professional orientation, emphasizing applications and applicable theory; it is intended to provide an "operational" knowledge of the subject.

To obtain the M.S. degree, students are required to complete 41 units and pass the comprehensive exams.  Normative time to degree is 2 years. 

To apply to the program, students must either have completed a B.S. degree in Statistics (or the equivalent), or have completed the following prerequisite courses: STAT 160A, 160B, 160C,161, 170A, 170B, and 171, covering basic areas of probability and statistics.  These courses may be taken through concurrent enrollment via UCR's Extension Center or from another institutions that have these equivalent courses.   View the description of these courses by clicking on: General Catalog 

The undergraduate courses are not counted as credit towards the M.S. degree.

Changing degree objective from the M.S. to the Ph.D. is available for students that pass the comprehensive exams and are progressing well academically.  Requests are submitted to the graduate advisor for approval, however, funding support is not guaranteed.

The Ph.D. program in Applied Statistics emphasizes both the theory of Statistics and its application to special fields of interest.  Primarily, students work on completing the course requirements and comprehensive exams during the first 2-3 years. A minimum of 12 units of enrollment (about 3 courses per quarter) is required until advancing to candidacy.  Students begin dissertation research after successfully passing the course requirements and comprehensive exams. Part of the course requirements is the opportunity to take courses outside the department that will allow students to prepare for their research project. This is the "Substantive Field" requirement and courses may be chosen from areas in Biology, Economics, Political Science, Psychology or Administration.  Specialties might include Population Genetics, Biological Control, Hydrology, Epidemiology, Geology, Discrimination of Learning, or scales and Measurements. Other subjects will need prior approval from the graduate advisor.

To apply to the Ph.D. program, students must have completed either a Bachelor's Degree or a Master's Degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or some other quantitative based discipline.  Students lacking sufficient preparation for some statistics graduate classes must complete some preparatory work in Statistics, Computer Science, or Mathematics depending on their background.

View a list of requirements and specific courses to Advance to Candidacy for Ph.D. degree by clicking on: General Catalog

https://business.ucr.edu/msba

Fall 2024 Application Deadlines:

• Priority Round: December 15
• Round 2: January 31
• Round 3: March 31
• International Late Round: June 1
• Domestic Late Round: August 1

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