Overview

Department of Statistics / Department of Statistics is located in Provo, UT, in a suburban setting.

Degrees & Awards

Degrees Offered

Degree	Concentration
Master of Science (MS)	Applied statistics

Degrees Awarded

Degree	Number Awarded
Master's Degrees	14

Earning Your Degree

Part-time study available?	No
Evening/weekend programs available?	No
Distance learning programs available?	No
Terminal master's degree available?	No

Degree Requirements

Degree	Requirement
Master's Degrees	Entrance Exam GRE General Test Comp Exam Required Thesis Alternate accepted Thesis or Project
Other Advanced Degrees	Project or Portfolio

Admissions

Acceptance Rate

29

Applied

16

Accepted

15

Enrolled

Applying

50

Application Fee - Domestic

Yes

Electronic
applications accepted?

Application Deadlines

Type	Domestic	International	Priority date
Fall deadline	January 15th	January 15th	No

Entrance Requirements

Exam	Details
Master's Degree Exam	GRE General Test
Master's Degree Requirements	Bachelor's degree from an accredited US university or equivalent, minimum 3.3 undergraduate GPA, 2 methods courses beyond introductory statistics, 2 courses in calculus-based statistical theory, differential calculus, integral calculus, multivariate calculus, a course in linear algebra. B- or higher in each course, math minor recommended.

International Students

Exam	Details
TOEFL: Required	TOEFL Paper score: 564 TOEFL IBT score: 85
IELTS: Required	IELTS Paper score: 7

Tuition & Fees

Tuition & Fees

$15,864

Tuition & Fees

Financial Support

Financial award applicants must submit:	FAFSA
Application deadlines for financial awards	April 23
Types of financial support available	Scholarship and/or loans

Student Body

33

Total Graduate Students

Not Reported

International Breakout (representing other countries)

Race/Ethnicity

Hispanic/Latino	6.06%
Black or African American	3.03%
White or Caucasian	96%
American Indian or Alaska Native	0%
Asian	3.03%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	0%
Two or more races	0%
Unknown	0%

Gender

Male (66%)

Female (33%)

Faculty

19

Total faculty

Full-time - 19

Part-time - 0

Male (15)

Female (4)

Research

Focus of faculty research:

Machine learning, random forests, manifold learning, manifold alignment, dimensionality reduction, predicting ambulatory care sensitive emergency department admissions, dependent point processes with applications in public policy and traffic engineering, actuarial methods in health applications of statistical mechanics to multiple agent problems, spatial factor analysis models for combining climate model output and spatial point patterns, sports and human performance, mixed effect models, computational health, data science & data sci. teaching

Externally sponsored research expenditures last year:

37,048

Location & Contact

Address Brigham Young University
2152 West View Building
Provo, UT  84602
United States

Contact Dr. Dennis Lee Eggett
Associate Chair/ Graduate Program Coordinator
Email: theegg@byu.edu
Phone: -422-4199

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