Applied Statistics, M.S.

Program Requirements

This is a non-thesis program that will have a capstone at the end of the program. DSP 5873 serves as the capstone experience.

Course List

Code	Title	Credit Hours
Core Courses
DSP 5773	Ethics in Statistical Practice	3
DSP 5873	Statistical Consulting and Communication	3
Electives
Statistics: 15 hours from a list maintained by the Data Scholarship Program and approved by the Graduate College.		15
Statistics and Computing: 3 hours from a list maintained by the Data Scholarship Program and approved by the Graduate College.		3
Data Analytics Techniques and Data Management: 6 hours from a list maintained by the Data Scholarship Program and approved by the Graduate College		6
Total Credit Hours		30

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General Requirements for all Master's Degrees

The master’s degree requires the equivalent of at least two semesters of satisfactory graduate work and additional work as may be prescribed for the degree.

All coursework applied to the master’s degree must carry graduate credit.

Master’s degree programs which require a thesis consist of at least 30 credit hours. All non-thesis master’s degree programs require at least 30 credit hours.

Credit transferred from other institutions must meet specific criteria and is subject to certain limitations.

Courses completed through correspondence study may not be applied to the master’s degree.

To qualify for a graduate degree, students must achieve an overall grade point average of 3.0 or higher in the degree program coursework and in all resident graduate coursework attempted. A student must also have at least a 3.0 in all coursework (including undergraduate coursework if any).

Additional information for master's degree students may be found in the Graduate College Bulletin.