The U.S. News & World Report’s ranks “statistician” as the "best job in STEM"; it also ranks number one in business and is the fourth best job across all occupations.
Employment data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on the occupation of a "statistician", as one of the many possible many positions related to statistics.
Graduate School
Guide to graduate programs in statistics by Michael Lopez (Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Skidmore College)
Datascience.la three-part blog series on the experience at graduate school
Simply Statistics guide to PhD applications
Advice on the graduate school application process from Amelia McNamara (Statistical and Data Sciences Professor at Smith College)
Contributions and articles from Statistician Xiao-Li Meng
This is statistics by ASA
Why Data Science must Inherently be Interdisciplinary from Statistician Xiao-Li Meng
Click here to learn more about how to choose an appropriate first statistics course.
Information about the Statistics minor can be found on the Math Department here.
Information regarding the Data Science major can be found here.
Please click here for a handout on Wellesley's statistics minor.
Wellesley's Quantitative Reasoning program also offers quantitative courses across the curriculum.