2024 Best Statistics Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
19
Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
678
Master's Degrees
If you pursue a master's degree in
statistics, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #56 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 19 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for statistics students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 678 master's degrees in statistics during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Statistics School for Your Master's Degree
The stats master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality stats program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree 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.
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 master'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.
- 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 master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Statistics Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Statistics Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.