<div dir="ltr"><h2 class="gmail-title" style="margin:0px;padding:5px 0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:2.2em;line-height:normal;font-family:Georgia;letter-spacing:-0.05em;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);border-top:3px solid rgb(221,221,221);color:rgb(51,51,51)">Statistics, Biostatistics Degree Growth Continued in 2021</h2><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial;font-size:0.8em;text-transform:uppercase;margin:0px;padding:0px 20px 0px 0px">1 DECEMBER 2022</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial;font-size:0.8em;text-transform:uppercase"> </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial;font-size:0.8em;text-transform:uppercase;margin:0px;padding:0px 20px 0px 0px">1,230 VIEWS</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial;font-size:0.8em;text-transform:uppercase"> </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial;font-size:0.8em;text-transform:uppercase;margin:0px;padding:0px 20px 0px 0px">ONE COMMENT</span></div><div class="entry gmail-clearfloat" style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border-bottom:1px dotted rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica;font-size:12.348px"><h2 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:2.3em;line-height:normal;font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman"">Surge in Master’s in Business Statistics Accentuates Demand for Data Science, Analytics Skills</h2><h5 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:1em;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Steve Pierson, ASA Director of Science Policy</em></h5><ul style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;box-sizing:border-box"></ul><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">The number of master’s degrees in business statistics awarded annually increased from 37 in 2010 to nearly 3,000 in 2021, paralleling the growth in bachelor’s and master’s degrees in statistics and biostatistics over the last couple decades. Similarly, the number of universities awarding the business statistics degree increased from 4 to 55 in the same period, according to the latest preliminary data release for 2021 degree completions from the National Center for Education Statistics.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">The NCES 2021 degree data also shows the growth in undergraduate and master’s degrees in statistics and biostatistics over the last decades continues strong. For 2020 to 2021, bachelor’s degrees grew 7 percent to 5,340 (49 of which are for biostatistics) and master’s degrees grew 5 percent to 5,128 (917 for biostatistics), as seen in Figure 1. Doctoral degrees in statistics and biostatistics declined 6 percent to 689 (222 for biostatistics), consistent with the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics finding that “the total number of doctorate recipients in the 2020–21 academic year declined by 5.4 percent from previous years.”<br><br><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">(....)</span><br></p></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2022/12/01/statsbiostatsdegree/">Statistics, Biostatistics Degree Growth Continued in 2021 | Amstat News</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div></div>