Admission to the Program

Open to students with a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.  

Certificate Requirements

• 15 credit hours of approved course work with grades of C or better 

Grades of C- or D in certificate program courses are not accepted toward the fulfillment of certificate requirements, although these grades will be included in the calculation of the GPA. Students must have at least a 3.0 GPA in certificate courses in order to be awarded a certificate. Students in certificate programs must take a minimum of 6 credit hours during each 12-month period and complete the certificate in four years. International students must enroll in 9 credit hours each semester (except for summer). A maximum of 3 credit hours earned at an accredited college or university may be applied toward the certificate as transfer credit. 

Course Requirements

• STAT-530 Mathematical Statistics I (3) 
• STAT-531 Mathematical Statistics II (3) 
• Three of the following: 

STAT-510 Theory of Sampling I (3) 

STAT-515 Regression (3) 

STAT-516 Design of Experiments (3) 

STAT-517 Special Topics in Statistical Methodology (3) 

or 

STAT-519 Nonparametric Statistics (3)