To the Students, Staff, and Faculty of the Statistics Department:
We stand with our Asian and APIDA students, staff, and faculty. You matter and belong here.
The recent attacks on our Asian and Asian, Pacific Islander and Desi American (APIDA) communities are unacceptable. We are outraged at these attacks. This past year has been a challenging year and these violent acts and verbal hatred towards our Asian and APIDA communities make it even more challenging and intolerable.
The Statistics Department values our Asian and APIDA students, staff, and faculty and remain committed to bring and maintain diversity, equity, and inclusion in our department.
We challenge every member of the department to stand up against this racism and bias that occurs every day in this country. We want you to know that you are welcomed here, and we support you. If we ever fall short in this regard, the members of the Climate and Diversity Committee want to help repair the situation. You can contact Laura Juszczyk and/or Karl Rohe.
Employment Opportunities
UW-Madison Statistics Department has the following openings
Faculty positions
Staff positions
Prospective Students
The Undergraduate degree program in statistics includes course work in statistics, mathematics, and computing as part of a BA or BS degree that prepares students in many ways of knowing about the world including thinking statistically to infer meaning from data.
The department offers multiple graduate programs.
The PhD program includes foundational coursework followed by original research directed by a faculty advisor leading to a dissertation.
The MS program in statistics prepares students to work as statistical consultants and emphasizes collaboration and communication with non-statisticians.
The MSDS program is a masters program in data science that merges coursework in statistics and computation to train students to extract knowledge from data.
The Biometry masters program is primarily aimed at students enrolled in a PhD program in a biological science at UW-Madison that seek to add a degree in statistics to their study.
Statistics Seminars
- April
- April 14Statistics Seminar New Amalgamation-Based Methods for Microbiome Compositional Data Analysis presented by Gen Li 4:00 PM, Online
- April 15Beyond Bias: Algorithmic Unfairness, Infrastructure, and Genealogies of DataAlex Hanna, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Ethical AI at Google3:00 PM, Online
- April 21
What's Happening in Statistics?
Three UW–Madison students named 2021 Goldwater Scholars
Fall 2020 Graduation
Soaring Statistics
Growing department raises Wisconsin’s profile in the data and information sector.
