I’m just curious to see where the best programs are.
SUNY-Stony Brook.
Many schools will have a good stats program. What’s your home state? What can your family afford?
These colleges appear in a Princeton Review sampling, “Great Schools for Mathematics Majors” and, in cases, may be strong in statistics (unscreened):
Agnes Scott
Bowdoin
Bryant
Bryn Mawr
Caltech
Carleton
Holy Cross
College of Idaho
Grinnell
Hamilton
Hampton
Harvard
HMC
Haverford
Macalester
MIT
Randolph
Reed
Rice
St. Lawrence
St. Olaf
SUNY-Albany
U.S. Coast Guard Academy
UChicago
URochester
Wabash
Brown, Stanford, JHU, the University of Southern California and Columbia could be other powerful destinations.
If you google colleges with statistics majors you fill find a number of lists.
hamilton is legit the best in statistics, just my opinion
One thing to consider for yourself, OP, is whether you absolutely need the major to be a statistics major or whether you are okay with the major being something else. Many schools have an applied mathematics major; sometimes, you can make the applied math major functionally the same as a statistics major elsewhere, and sometimes, it’s going to be a little different but still similar enough that you can get work in the field.
Similarly, sometimes the straight-up math major can be tailored to essentially be a statistics major with a little more theoretical math than normal. Math majors at many good schools are very flexible, since math in and of itself can be applied to virtually everything - they’re trying to give students the flexibility to define their major and applications the way they need.
In prior posts this year, you mentioned wanting to get a PhD in statistics - so you’re actually going to need more solid math courses (and computer science courses!) than a more professionally-oriented stats major would need. You also posted a list of schools. OUt of that list, I know that Columbia, Duke, and NYU have great statistics programs. Columbia also has related programs in SEAS you can take classes in - industrial engineering and operations research. CMU has a great statistics program and also a bunch of other majors you can pair with statistics for interesting applications - like decision science, information systems, computational neuroscience, or the statistics and machine learning major. Wharton also has some interested departments in operations & information management that may interface well with statistics.
UNC offers an interesting major in mathematical decision sciences, which is a combo of statistics, applied math, operations research and some business/finance/actuarial math. They also have a strong biostatistics department in the school of public health, where you could potentially take courses.
@“Erin’s Dad” North Carolina is my state, and we can generally handle costs thanks to savings and other things.
@juillet Just to clarify, I was already accepted to UNC for Mathematical Decision Sciences, and I’ve already figured out the courses that I’d need to take.
Probably the same schools that have best graduate statistics programs.
In case anyone else was wondering, from the OP:
That’s great! Just keep an open mind in case your interests evolve, or professors offer new classes (or a new professor is hired), or new areas of interest open up on the job market.