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New degree adapts to marketplace demands
Misericordia University
The Department of school. Students will be elective courses in stat- Photo courtesy of Misericordia University
Mathematics and required to take core istics are required.
Computer Science classes and specially de- Misericordia University will add a bachelor’s of science degree and minor in statistics starting this fall.
at Misericordia University signed courses in math- Statisticians use stat-
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2017 is introducing a Bachelor ematics, computer science istical methods to collect informed business and U.S. Bureau of Labor demand to grow 34 per-
of Science degree program and statistics and analyze data to help cent by 2024.
and minor in statistics solve real-world problems. health care decisions. The Statistics projects job
beginning with the fall This science of learning They work in business and
semester in response to from data requires 53 industry, computer scien-
rapid advances in credits of statistics classes ce, education, finance,
technology, the growing in the mathematics-based marketing, sports, govern-
reliance on quantitative program. It consists of 38 ment, health care, research
research, and demand in credits of required courses and development, and
the marketplace. and a minimum of 15 cred- fields that require the
its of elective courses in collection and analysis of
The program provides statistics. data.
training in contemporary
statistical techniques, as The curriculum for the The job outlook for
well as theoretical back- 18-credit minor is de- statisticians is robust,
ground. It can be tailored signed so students can according to several jobs
to a wide variety of careers tailor their minor sequence reports as they attribute
in business, industry, gov- to their areas of interest. growth from the more
ernment or graduate Nine credits of courses, widespread use of stat-
plus at least nine credits of istical analysis in making
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