Rice University, Department of Statistics

The Department of Statistics at Rice is a community of nine core faculty, eleven joint faculty, seventeen adjunct faculty, forty-five Ph.D. students and ten to fifteen undergraduate students. The department regularly hosts visitors from all over the world and it maintains an active post-doctoral program through NSF and NIH sponsorship.

In addition to the undergraduate B.A. degree, students may work towards one of the three graduate degrees offered: the professional master's degree, M.Stat (thesis not required); the research master's degree, M.A. (thesis required); and the doctoral degree Ph.D.