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Career - what can you do with a applied statistics degree?
With demand for applied statisticians remaining high, successful students have exciting career options ahead of them. Past graduates have launched careers in public health and clinical research with organizations such as the Harvard School of Public Health, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Eli Lilly and Company, and the John Wayne Cancer Institute are also possible.
Other graduates continue on to Ph.D. programs at top institutions like Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan and UCLA.
Other graduates have moved on to careers with Capital One, Morgan Stanley, Honda, Nike, American Greetings, Hallmark, Microsoft, eBay, Amazon, the Walt Disney Company, Delta Airlines, BP, Nationwide Insuranc,e Allstate Insurance and many others.
Career paths
- Public health research
- Senior data scientist
- Technical business analyst
- Strategic business analyst
- Data science researcher
- Professor
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Curriculum
The MS in applied statistics program at BGSU offers a learning environment that stimulates intellectual curiosity, enhances critical thinking, develops quantitative reasoning, sharpens problem-solving skills, encourages ethical behavior and develops communication and leadership abilities.
Sample courses
- Probability Theory
- Business Database Management
- Linear and Integer Programming
- Regression Analysis
- Time Series Analysis
- Data Mining
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The MSAS program is run jointly with the Department of Applied Statistics and Operations Research within the Schmidthorst College of Business and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Updated: 11/25/2025 02:01PM