2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Statistics in District of Columbia

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Stats Major in District of Columbia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2021-2022, 7,954 people earned their degree in statistics, making the major the 101st most popular in the United States.

Across District of Columbia, there were 75 statistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 38 statistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,686 and $62,807 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Stats Major in District of Columbia” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in statistics. That schools that top this list have a program in statistics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Stats Major in District of Columbia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Stats Major in District of Columbia”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Statistics in District of Columbia

1

George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#2 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend George Washington University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Stats Major in District of Columbia. GWU is a large school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 32 masters’s stats degrees in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Statistics at George Washington University

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American University
Washington, District of Columbia

#3 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Stats Major in District of Columbia list. American University is located in Washington, District of Columbia and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 6 masters’s stats degrees to qualified students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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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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