Students concentrating in Statistics acquire the conceptual, computational, and mathematical tools for quantifying uncertainty and making sense of complex data arising from many applications.
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Statistics provides quantitative methods for analyzing data, making rational decisions under uncertainty, designing experiments, and modeling randomness and variability in the world. Statistics has a theoretical core surrounded by a vast number of domains of application in fields such as: anthropology, astronomy, biology, business, chemistry, computer science, economics, education, engineering, environmental sciences, epidemiology, finance, government, history, law, linguistics, medicine, physics, psychology, sociology, and many others. A New York Times article pointed out the increasing demand for statisticians in an article with the headline: "For Today's Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics".
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Undergraduate Student Program Administrator, Lorna Blocksma, Science Center 400F (617-495-1184, lblocksma@fas.harvard.edu)
Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor Joseph Blitzstein, Science Center 316.05 (617-496-2985, blitzstein@stat.harvard.edu)
Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor Kelly McConville, Science Center 316.04 (617-496-1824, kmcconville@fas.harvard.edu)
Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor Kevin Rader, Science Center 300D (617-495-5204, krader@fas.harvard.edu)
Undergraduate News
Rachel Li Receives 2023 Department of Statistics Senior Concentrator Prize
Jason Zhou Receives 2023 Department of Statistics Concurrent Masters Prize
Dinan Hamdi Elsyad Receives Best Video Presentation at eUSR 2023
Lucy Tu Receives AAAS Mass Media Fellowship from ASA
Concentrators James Celi Kitch, Kavya Mehul Shah, and Jason Zhou Receive Awards
Rachel Li Receives 2023 Department of Statistics Senior Concentrator Prize at Commencement
Virginia Linqian Ma and Jason Zhou Receive 2023 Department of Statistics Concurrent Masters Prize
Dr. Kelly McConville is Awarded 2023 Alpha-Iota Prize for Excellence in Teaching
Harvard Statistics Hosts Inaugural Florence Nightingale Outreach Day
Asteria Chilambo and Jing Shang Receive Best Video Presentation at eUSR Conference
Department of Statistics Launches 2022 Newsletter
Profile of Alumna Michele Zemplenyi, Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy
Professors Janson and Kakade Introduce Undergraduate Reinforcement Learning Course
Professor Kelly McConville Reimagines Harvard’s Stat 100 Course
Professor Kelly McConville's Undergraduate Research Group Conducts US Forest Service Projects
Undergraduate Thesis Prize Profile: Yash Nair
Undergraduate Program Information
Secondary Field Requirements
Students primarily focusing on another discipline benefit from a solid grasp of Statistics, as well.
Degree Tracks
Concentration requirements are fulfilled via any of the four tracks. Explore them here.
Using Your Statistics Degree
Recent alumni are applying their knowledge in a very wide variety of companies and graduate programs, including tech companies such as Google and IBM, investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse, hedge funds such as D.E. Shaw and AlphaSimplex, medical schools, and Statistics PhD programs.
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