2025 Best Statistics Bachelor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania

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.

College Factual reviewed 5 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of statistics. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 415 bachelor's degrees in statistics during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Statistics School for Your Bachelor's Degree

Your choice of statistics for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality stats program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

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

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on statistics students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of statistics students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt statistics students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• 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 schools for statistics students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Statistics Schools

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 in Pennsylvania.

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. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Statistics in Pennsylvania

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in statistics.

Top Pennsylvania Schools for a Bachelor's in Stats

1

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

172 Annual Graduates

$93,111 Median Starting Salary

It's difficult to beat Carnegie Mellon University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in statistics. Carnegie Mellon is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Pittsburgh.

Those statistics students who get their bachelor's degree from Carnegie Mellon University receive $5,146 more than the standard stats grad.

More information about a bachelor’s in statistics from Carnegie Mellon University

2

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

67 Annual Graduates

$129,732 Median Starting Salary

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in statistics has to take a look at University of Pennsylvania. UPenn is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Philadelphia.

Those statistics students who get their bachelor's degree from University of Pennsylvania make $41,767 more than the typical stats grad.

More information about a bachelor’s in statistics from University of Pennsylvania

3

Villanova University
Villanova, PA

18 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Villanova University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in statistics. Villanova is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Villanova.More information about a bachelor’s in statistics from Villanova University

4

University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus
Pittsburgh, PA

21 Annual Graduates

University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus is a good decision for individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in statistics. Pitt is a very large public university located in the city of Pittsburgh.More information about a bachelor’s in statistics from University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus

5

Temple University
Philadelphia, PA

30 Annual Graduates

$60,765 Median Starting Salary

Temple is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Philadelphia.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the stats program earn around $60,765 for their early career.

More information about a bachelor’s in statistics from Temple University

Best Statistics Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Statistics Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	275	189
Maryland	207	19
New Jersey	193	67
Delaware	130	8
District of Columbia	126	43

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Rankings in Majors Related to Stats

Statistics is one of 4 different types of Mathematics & Statistics programs to choose from.

Stats Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Statistics	380
Other Statistics	23
Mathematical Statistics & Probability	7
Mathematics & Statistics	5

Majors Similar to Stats

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Mathematics	1,028
Applied Mathematics	114
Other Statistics	48

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to QWFP. More about our data sources and methodologies.