# Harvard Mag: Here Come the Quants! January 04, 2017 Harvard Magazine reports "...explosion of excitement about studying statistics. The latter likely reflects not only intellectual advances and the enthusiasm for big data, but also a refreshed faculty and improvements in pedagogy and outreach to potential concentrators. (The Harvard Crimson highlighted statistics in a September article, noting a nearly tenfold growth in concentrators and joint concentrators in just the past seven academic years.)" See more at .