Bachelor's Degrees in Statistics Surge Another 20%

摘要

The recently released 2013 statistics and biostatistics degree data from the National Center for Education Statistics show continued robust growth for bachelor's degrees, with a 21% jump over the 2012 number and a near doubling since 2009. As shown in Figure 1, master's degrees saw a 15% increase over 2012; PhD's 2%. Figure 2 shows the master's and doctoral data for only biostatistics degrees.