If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in statistics, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #79 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 95 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Statistics Bachelor's Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 5,215 bachelor's degrees in statistics during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Statistics School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The stats bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to statistics students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other statistics students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for statistics to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized statistics related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for statistics students working on their bachelor's degree.
The stats school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Statistics Bachelor's Degree Schools.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Statistics in the United States
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in statistics. Only those schools that rank in the top 15% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
University of Chicago is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in statistics. Located in the large city of Chicago, UChicago is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in statistics from University of Chicago
Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in statistics needs to check out Carnegie Mellon University. Located in the large city of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.
Those statistics students who get their bachelor's degree from Carnegie Mellon University earn $36,590 more than the typical stats graduate.
It is difficult to beat Harvard University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in statistics. Harvard is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Cambridge.
Those statistics students who get their bachelor's degree from Harvard University make $25,147 more than the standard stats graduate.
Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in statistics needs to look into Emory University. Located in the large city of Atlanta, Emory is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.
Bachelor's recipients from the statistics program at Emory University get $13,075 more than the standard graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.
Located in the city of Los Angeles, UCLA is a public university with a very large student population.
Bachelor's recipients from the statistics major at University of California - Los Angeles make $3,088 above the average college graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.
Northwestern is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Evanston.
Statistics bachelor's degree recipients from Northwestern University receive an earnings boost of about $6,846 over the average income of statistics graduates.
Purdue is a fairly large public university located in the small city of West Lafayette.
Bachelor's recipients from the statistics major at Purdue University - Main Campus earn $15,695 above the standard college graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.
Located in the city of Champaign, UIUC is a public university with a very large student population.
Bachelor's recipients from the statistics major at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign earn $10,653 above the standard college graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
U-M is a very large public university located in the medium-sized city of Ann Arbor.
Statistics bachelor's degree recipients from University of Michigan - Ann Arbor get an earnings boost of about $7,758 over the average earnings of statistics majors.
UC Berkeley is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Berkeley.
Bachelor's recipients from the statistics major at University of California - Berkeley make $17,181 more than the average graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).