The major includes five options:

• An Actuarial Statistics Option for students interested in working as actuaries in the insurance or business fields;
• An Applied Statistics Option for students interested in a cross-disciplinary program, such as econometrics, or psychometrics;
• A Biostatistics Option for students interested in pursuing careers with pharmaceutical companies, research hospitals or other fields in which biological data is analyzed;
• A Graduate Study Option for students planning to go to graduate school in a statistics-related field; and
• A Statistics and Computing Option for students wishing to combine statistical expertise with programming skills.

Statistics is the field of study of that uses mathematics, computing, and analysis, to organize and understand data. Statisticians use critical and abstract thinking through the application of mathematical principles to statistical problems, and combine modeling with computational skills to analyze data.