MS Admissions
It is the applicant's responsibility to ensure that they meet all eligibility requirements before applying. All application materials, including exam scores and supporting documents, must be received by the application deadline.
Please be advised, the M.S. program does not offer financial aid or assistantships. Applicants are responsible for securing funding for the entirety of the M.S. program (5-6 quarters).
MS Overview:
The Statistics and Data Science Master's degree programs are TERMINAL degrees that do not lead to the doctoral program in Statistics and do not include research or a thesis project.
Prerequisite courses linear algebra, multivariate calculus, introductory statistics/probability and proficiency in programming are the basis of the curriculum. The MS in Statistics and Data Science are full-time degree programs. They are not offered as online degree programs.
Application Timeline and Deadlines:
The Graduate Admissions period mid-September/early October each year for applications to be submitted by the published deadline posted on the application requirements page (for matriculation beginning Autumn Quarter the following academic year). After April 15th each year, the Graduate Admissions period is closed until September.
Program options:
Coterminal Applicant
Matriculated undergraduate students interested in pursuing the Master's degree in Statistics while completing their undergraduate degree concurrently must make an appointment with the Statistics department SSO prior to starting or submitting the Statistics coterm application.
Stanford undergrads may apply to the Statistics Data Science subplan as an external candidate.
Internal Applicant
Stanford doctoral students interested in adding the Statistics Master's degree may apply during autumn, winter or summer for the following quarter start. Stanford doctoral students interested applying to the Statistics Data Science subplan must apply as an external candidate.
Stanford students pursuing a Master's degree must have completed their current Masters program upon submitting their application as an EXTERNAL applicant.
Please notify Student Services Officer, Caroline Gates (cgates@) if you intend to apply.
External Applicant
Applicants who are not current Stanford students (including anyone who recently graduated from Stanford, has taken courses online via SCPD or earned an online certificate) or graduate students pursuing a Master's degree at Stanford who wish to apply to either the Statistics MS or the Data Science MS.
Please visit Graduate Admissions before beginning the application process for complete application information and instructions.
The Statistics MS and Data Science subplan are not online degree programs.
Please be advised, the MS program does not offer financial aid. Applicants are responsible for securing funding for the entirety of the MS program (5-6 quarters).
Honors Cooperative Applicant
Applicants gain admission as a degree candidate to the academic department through the standard graduate admissions process (External applicant). This is not an online degree program. Visit Graduate Admissions before beginning the application process for complete application information and instructions.