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Ranked in 2010 | Statistics Rankings Methodology

With a graduate degree, statisticians may find jobs working with data in many sectors, including business, government, academia, public health, technology, and other science fields. These are the best schools for statistics.

Rank School name Score
#1 Stanford University

Stanford, CA

4.9
#2 University of California–​Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

4.7
#3 Harvard University

Boston, MA

4.6
#3 University of Washington

Seattle, WA

4.6
#5 Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

4.4
#6 Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

4.3
#6 University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

4.3
#6 University of Washington

Seattle, WA

4.3
#9 Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA

4.1
#10 Duke University

Durham, NC

4.0
#10 University of North Carolina–​Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

4.0
#12 North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC

3.9
#12 Texas A&M University–​College Station

College Station, TX

3.9
#12 University of Michigan–​Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI

3.9
#12 University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

3.9
#12 University of Wisconsin–​Madison

Madison, WI

3.9
#17 University of California–​Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

3.8
#17 University of Michigan–​Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI

3.8
#17 University of Minnesota–​Twin Cities

Minneapolis, MN

3.8
#20 Iowa State University

Ames, IA

3.7
#20 Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA

3.7
#22 Columbia University

New York, NY

3.6
#22 Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

3.6
#22 Purdue University–​West Lafayette

West Lafayette, IN

3.6
#22 University of Minnesota–​Twin Cities

Minneapolis, MN

3.6

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Morse Code: Inside the College Rankings by Bob Morse
Updates to 2 Schools' 2013 Best Colleges Ranks

University of Mary Hardin–Baylor and York College of Pennsylvania are now in the ‘Unranked’ category.

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