<p>I’ve been searching online, in bookstores, libraries, you name it. I can’t find a legitimate list for biostatistics graduate school rankings!!! Does anyone know of a such a list? If not, I’m looking at the following schools (really trying to cut down). Any comments? Please please help…</p>
<li>UCLA - Biostatistics</li>
<li>Berkeley - Biostatistics</li>
<li>Brown Univ - Biostatistics</li>
<li>Univ of Washington - Biostatistics</li>
<li>Virginia Commonwealth Univ - Biostatistics</li>
<li>Boston Univ - Biostatistics</li>
<li>USC - Biostatistics</li>
<li>John Hopkins Univ - Biostatistics</li>
<li>Rutgers Univ - New Brunswick - Statistics w/ option in biostatistics</li>
<li>Univ of Vermont - Statistics & Biostatistics</li>
<li>University of Buffalo (SUNY) - Biostatistics</li>
<li>UMDNJ School of Public Health - Biostatistics</li>
<li>San Diego State - Statistics w/ concentration in biostatistics</li>
<li>G. Washing Univ or Columbia Univ - Biostatistics & epidemiology</li>
<li>Univ of Albany (SUNY) - Biometry & statistics</li>
</ol>
<p>I had the same problem when I was applying last year. The closest rankings I could find were School of Public Health Rankings on USNews. SPH encompasses Biostats, Epidemiology, HMP, HBHS, etc; all these departments affect the overall SPH ranking, not just biostats alone.</p>
<p>I went to several of my professors and asked for their recommendations on Biostat programs and here are the ones they recommended:</p>
<p>*UNC - Biostatistics
Harvard - Biostatistics
Berkeley, Davis - Biostatistics
*Univ of Washington - Biostatistics
*Johns Hopkins Univ - Biostatistics
Columbia Univ - Biostatistics
*Michigan - Biostatistics
Minnesota - Biostatistics</p>
<p>This is probably not an exhaustive list of all the good programs- just the ones they knew about.</p>
<p>I believe I came across some unofficial rankings in the past that indicated that UWash was #1, but don't quote me. I've also stared the ones that to seem to be very good, from being at UM for almost a semester and hearing others say good things about said programs (again, not an exhaustive list, as I'm sure Harvard SPH is terrific).</p>
<p>I really wanted to go to Columbia, but they rejected me. My second choice was Michigan and that's where I went. The program here is very well known and is probably on-par with, or better, than Columbia (UM SPH ranked 1 spot higher, but this really doesn't mean anything). My only complaint is location. I'm from the east coast and Columbia would have been a much better match for me in that regard.</p>
<p>Are you interested in PhD or MS?
Academia or industry?</p>
<p>I'm looking into getting an MS to possibly work in more of the medical industry (as I am now). I actually did my undergrad at UCLA but am currently working for UMDNJ. So far (I just took my GRE's this past Saturday), I submitted my scores to Berkeley, UCLA, UMDNJ, and Johns Hopkins. Haha... pretty similar to yours? I still have to decide among the rest 10 colleges or so.... it's really hard when I don't know the rankings.</p>
<p>Actually, I saw at a couple of rankings, that UWashington ranks the top 3... but then again, that's not specified to MS in biostats. </p>
<p>How were your scores? Grades, etc? Just want to see a general vicinity... so I don't get disappointed when I get rejected!</p>
<p>The GRE's don't matter nearly as much as your grades and recommendations. This is something I found out after I was admitted. They are more of a cutoff and that cutoff seems to be around 650-700 for math. That turned out well for me because I totally blew off the GRE and didn't do well.</p>
<p>I've seen your other posts. You should have no problems getting in to most, if not all, schools.</p>
<p>I have two cousins with PhD.'s in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins. They are extremely bright people. One is a faculty member there now. I think it's a top notch school for Biostatistics.</p>
<p>Shouldn't Stanford, University of Chicago, and University of Wisconsin - Madison be on the list of top biostatistics schools in the country too?</p>
<p>Oh, don't get me wrong. I know there are a bunch of other great graduate schools in biostatistics like the ones you've mentioned. I only listed the ones on the east coast and west coast because that's my preferred geographical regions.</p>
<p>As a statistician myself, I think 2 universities stand out in statistics:
Stanford (#1) and Berkeley (#2).
No other school is even close.</p>
<p>For biostatistics, the best schools would be University of Washington and Harvard. Stanford and Berkeley are still top notched, even though their biostatistics programs are much smaller than University of Washington and Harvard.</p>
<p>Other very strong programs include UNC, Wisconsin-Madison, JHU, UCLA, Cornell, Iowa State, Texas A & M, North Carolina State, and Florida.</p>
<p>hello!
I am a undergraduate student and my major is mathematics. I plan to apply for the biostatistics MS. I want to know wheather the GRE grade is very important. If my GRE Verbal grade is sort of bad, dose that matter my application? Who can gice me a tip???</p>
<p>Your GRE quantitative score will be more important, but your verbal score’s importance will vary depending on the program that you’re trying to get into. I think that a GRE verbal score will be more important in biostatistics programs based in a school of public health than biostatistics programs based in a statistics department.</p>
<p>There may be cutoffs, but they may be relatively low. Like I doubt that they’ll care that you have a 550 or whatever, but a 380 or something could kill your chances.</p>
<p>GREs can’t get you in, but they can keep you out. If the cutoff is 600, no one cares whether you got 660 or 760.</p>
<p>I’m in biostatistics and can say the general consensus collectively in academia and biotech companies in the varied circles I run in, the top schools for biostats alphabetically are:</p>
<p>Harvard
Johns Hopkins
UC Berkeley
UNC Chapel Hill
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>Note: People mentioned Stanford for biostatistics - they do not have a biostatistics degree program only a statistics program. Michigan is also a great school, fantastic choice, although not always considered among the top, same with UCLA. Good schools.</p>
<p>Also, GRE does matter a lot for many of these top programs, although I can’t speak for all. For some of these schools, the applicant must have nearly perfect or perfect on the quantitative although some with “lower” scores closer to 700 are accepted by some, depends on the school. Just wanted to add that since another poster posited that they did not matter (as much) for their schools. </p>
<p>Rankings of the SPH’s can help some but since biostatistics is a more mathematically rigorous academic program giving typically academic degrees (M.S., Ph.D.) and not professional degrees (MPH, DrPH) some of the items factored into the ranking do not play a huge role for the biostatistics program.</p>
<p>I am currently studying in the phd program of biostatistics in the University of Louisville. I did my masters (MSTAT) from Indian Statistical Institute. My advisor is good…I want to know that for jobs (industry/post doc) how important is the recognition of the department and university provided that you do not have very strong publications to outperform the big guns from the highly ranked universities…I was just wandering whether changing the university will help me. Can anybody help me on this issue ?</p>
<p>Hi, I am math major and just did a summer research in biostatistics and I love it. I want to apply to biostatistics program, but I have taken only 1 introduction stat course. this is my senior year and I only have enough time to take maximum two more stat class. will that hurt my application ? I took the GRE (2ndtime) and got 490 VR, 790 math (although the 1st time was really bad). Any advice would be appreciated.</p>