Welcome from the Department Chair

Welcome to the website for the Department of Statistics, the academic statistics department of George Mason University. On these pages, you can find out more about our distinguished faculty and our graduate programs.

Our department has expertise in many cutting-edge areas of statistical research. Three particular emphases are biostatistics, the application of statistics to medical research; biometric identification; and computational statistics, including visualization and data mining.

In addition to our masters and doctoral programs in Statistical Science, we jointly offer an M.S. in Epidemiology and Biostatistics with the College of Health and Human Services and dual M.S. degree programs in Statistical Science and Operations Research and in Statistical Science and Mathematics. We also have two prestigious graduate certificates (Biostatistics and Federal Statistics) that are designed for working professionals to expand their expertise in statistics.

We offer a limited number of competitive research and teaching assistantships for full-time graduate studies. Part-time graduate students will find our campus quite convenient, as we offer all graduate courses one night per week after 4:30 p.m., and a free CUE bus is available from the Vienna/Fairfax-GMU metro station.

The Department currently has 14 regular faculty, 25 supported graduate students, over 50 M.S. students, and about 20 Ph.D. students.

We are excited about the future direction of the Department, our graduate programs, and our faculty’s sponsored research. If you are a student, we invite you to consider applying here!

Sincerely,
William F. Rosenberger
Professor and Chairman