2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Stats Major

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Statistics is the 101st most popular major in the country with 8,503 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 statistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Stats Major” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in statistics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in statistics.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Stats Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree stats students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Statistics

1

Amarillo College
Amarillo, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Stats Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Amarillo College landed the #1 spot on the list. Amarillo College is a medium-sized school located in Amarillo, Texas that handed out 1 associates’s stats degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

South Dakota State University
Brookings, South Dakota

Top 5% overall quality in United States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Stats Major that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Brookings, South Dakota, this fairly large public school handed out 72 degrees to qualified associates’s stats students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Statistics at South Dakota State University

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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