2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Stats Major in Virginia
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Stats Major in Virginia” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Statistics is the 85th most popular major in the country with 9,472 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , statistics graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $62,855 and had an average of $22,227 in loans still to pay off.
Across Virginia, there were 137 statistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,967 and $15,898 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 49 statistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,140 and $42,203 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Stats Major in Virginia” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in statistics. That schools that top this list have a program in statistics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Stats Major in Virginia
The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia master’s degree stats students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Statistics in Virginia
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Virginia - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Stats Major in Virginia list. University of Virginia is located in Charlottesville, Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 33 masters’s stats degrees to qualified students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Virginia Statistics Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Stats Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, George Mason University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Fairfax, Virginia, this large public school handed out 9 diplomas to qualified masters’s stats students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Statistics at GMU
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Stats Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Tech landed the #3 spot on the list. Virginia Tech is a large school located in Blacksburg, Virginia that handed out 7 masters’s stats degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Statistics at Virginia Tech
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Notes and References
References
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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