2024 Best Accredited Online Colleges for Statistics

STATISTICS DEGREES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

Statistics is not a profoundly popular discipline. The typical area of study awards 6,156 yearly bachelor's degrees; last May, 4,428 students completed four-year degrees in statistics, making it the United States' 90th most popular field. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign​ awarded more of those degrees than any other school in the USA (315), and colleges in California gave out more degrees than any U.S. State (954).

Selecting the right fit for you likely won't be easy, given that 184 schools in the United States offer a four-year degree in statistics. Bachelor's degrees in statistics are just 4.1% less commonly offered than the typical major, making it the 110th most commonly available American major.

GRADUATE DEGREES

While 51% of last spring's degrees in statistics were undergrad degrees; 49% were postgrad degrees. Statistics is the 53rd most popular postgrad degree in the USA, with 4,230 degrees awarded. For some context, statistics is 52% more popular among graduate students than the average major.

In Total, 8,658 students received a bachelor's or higher in statistics last year.

ONLINE STATISTICS DEGREES

126 of those 8,658 graduates (1.5%) came out of totally remote programs - 0 undergrads and 126 postgraduate students. It is currently the 121st most popular online postgraduate degree, and 79.5% under the nation's average (616).

PARTIALLY ONLINE STATISTICS DEGREES

• 763 people last May received undergraduate degrees in statistics partially online
• Undergrad degrees in statistics are offered partially online at 164 colleges across the country
• Last year, 1,136 students completed a bachelor's or higher in statistics partially online
• The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign​ awarded the most partially online undergrad degrees in statistics in the nation (118)
• Last spring, 4,230 students completed grad degrees in statistics partially online
• The average partially online area of study grants 1,683 annual bachelor's degrees or higher

IN-PERSON STATISTICS DEGREES

• Statistics is the 80th most popular completely in-person college degree in the United States
• Statistics is the 104th most commonly offered in-person college degree nationwide
• 82.77% of all four-year degree in statistics are done in-person
• The University of California-Berkeley​ conferred 215 entirely in-person undergraduate degrees in statistics, more than any other US college
• Last May, 3,731 students earned grad degrees in statistics fully in-person
• On average, each course of study had around 4,293 totally in-person bachelor's degrees last year