Bachelor's Degree

I. Prerequisites for Becoming a Statistics Major

In order to be officially classified as a Statistics major and receive advising by the Department of Statistics, a student must have a minimum of 45 hours. The student should be working on the following prerequisites although it is not necessary to have all the pre-requisites (except Stat 2000) completed before taking statistics major courses:

a. STAT 2000 or STAT 2100H

b. CSCI 130-1301L

c. MATH 2250 (or MATH 2300H or MATH 2400H), MATH 2260 (or MATH 2310H or MATH 2410H), and MATH 2500 (or MATH 3510H). These courses are the Calculus 1-3 sequence and the student is required to have an average of 2.0 or higher for the three-course Calculus sequence.

Until a student has the minimum 45 hours, he/she will be advised by the Arts & Science advisors in Memorial Hall.

II. Major Course Requirements for the Bachelor of Science Degree Major

Required Courses - 22 hours

(A student must have a grade of "C" or higher for these courses.)

STAT 4210 or STAT 4110H Statistical Methods
STAT 4220 Applied Experimental Designs
STAT 4230 Regression Analysis Methods
STAT 4360 Statistical Programming
STAT 4510 Mathematical Statistics I
STAT 4520 Mathematical Statistics II
STAT 5010 Capstone I
STAT 5020 Capstone II

Major Electives - 3 hours

(A student must have a grade of "C" or higher for these courses.)

Students may choose three hours from among STAT 4000-level courses or specific MATH 3000/4000-level courses to complete the major. The MATH 3000/4000-level courses will be approved by the undergraduate coordinator. The STAT 4000-level courses can include the following:

STAT 4100 Applied Stochiastic Processes
STAT 4240 Sampling
STAT 4260 Statistical Quality Assurance
STAT 4280 Applied Time Series
STAT 4290 Nonparametric Methods
STAT 4380 Survival Analysis
STAT 4630 Stat Method Bioinformatics I
STAT 4640 Stat Method Bioinformatics II

III. Statistics Minor

The requirements for an undergraduate minor in statistics consist of a total of 15 semester hours of coursework. The required pre-requisite course is STAT 2000. The core requirement is STAT 4210, STAT 4220, and STAT 4230.

Then 6 additional elective hours of STAT courses numbered above 4000 are required. No course with a grade lower than C- can be used as a minor course. At least nine semester hours of the minor courses must be taken in residence.

Contact Information:

Christine Franklin, Undergraduate Coordinator

To setup an advising appointment, email the undergraduate coordinator.

email: chris@stat.uga.edu