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2017-2018 Graduate Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Applied Statistics and Data Analytics, M.S.


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Admission Requirements

Applicants to the M.S. in applied statistics and data analytics degree program (also known as “MASDA”) must hold a bachelor’s degree, must have taken a course in statistics and must have taken calculus courses through multivariate calculus. Applicants must have taken the GRE graduate school admission test and have excellent English communication skills. International students applying from countries where English is not the native language are required to provide scores on the TOEFL English language proficiency test.

Degree Requirements


Required Courses


To qualify for the M.S. in applied statistics and data analytics, the student must successfully complete at least 36 credit hours of study acceptable to the departmental faculty (at least 18 of which are 6000-level courses or above). The following are required:

Major Consulting Project


The student must complete one or more major consulting projects under the supervision of departmental faculty members. For at least one of these projects, written and oral presentations of the findings are required.

Note: The website www.smu.edu/Dedman/Academics/Departments/Statistics has more information (“Applied M.S. Program” link).

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