MPS in STATISTICS AND DATA SCIENCE

Class Profile

Class Size

50

Average Age

19

Average Work Experience

2 Years

Diversity

California:

15%

Illinois:

5%

Texas:

10%

Florida:

4%

New York:

20%

Others:

46%

Career Outcomes

Median Earnings After Graduation

$1,10,000 / year

Graduation Rate

93%

Job Placement

67%

Top recruiters

Deloitte

EY

PwC

IBM

Amazon

Microsoft

Goldman Sachs

Morgan Stanley

McKinsey

Dell

Genentech

Adobe

Illinois Institute of Technology

Dell Technologies

Edelman

Adelaide Health

Delphi Technologies

HCL Technologies

The University of Adelaide

Auckland University of Technology

Fees and Funding

Tuition Fees

$65,204 / year

Overall Cost

$80,000 / year

Funding Options

FAQs

• When Will You Be Notified of Our Decision?
  
  First-round admission decisions will be made in early April. Admissions decisions may not be finalized until late May or early June.
• Application deadlines?
  
  The deadline for Fall admissions is February 1. A limited number of Spring term admissions are available for currently enrolled Cornell undergraduates and for a small number of exceptional non-Cornell applicants. Students who enter in the Spring generally take three semesters to complete the MPS degree. The deadline for Spring admissions is October 1. If you wish to apply for the Spring semester, you should send an email to the program director, indicating that your application is for the Spring term. For questions, contact the Director of the MPS program, Dr. Xiaolong Yang, or Allen Ward.
• What Should the Personal Statement Include?
  
  Your Personal Statement should provide the admissions committee with a sense of you as a whole person, and you should use it to describe how your personal background and experiences influenced your decision to pursue a graduate degree. Additionally, it should provide insights into your potential to contribute to Cornell University’s core value to provide a community of inclusion, belonging, and respect where scholars representing diverse backgrounds, perspectives, abilities, and experiences can learn and work productively and positively together. Within your Personal Statement, you may also share details on lessons learned from any of your lived experiences including but not limited to being a first-generation college student or graduate (no parent/guardian completed a baccalaureate degree) racial, ethnic, and/or cultural background(s) managing a disability or chronic health condition experiencing housing, food, economic, and/or other forms of significant insecurity being a solo parent gender identity and/or sexual orientation having served in the military holding DACA, refugee, TPS, or asylee status Your Personal Statement provides you with an opportunity to share experiences that provide insights on how your personal, academic, and/or professional experiences demonstrate your ability to be both persistent and resilient, especially when navigating challenging circumstances. It also gives you an opportunity to provide examples of how you engage with others and have facilitated and/or participated in productive collaborative endeavors. Additionally, it is a place, where if necessary, you can (and should) address any blemishes, gaps, or weaknesses in your academic record. In these situations, you will want to be honest, but brief. It is best to turn negatives into positives by focusing on how you overcame obstacles, remained persistent in the pursuit of your goals, and showed resilience. Share what you learned from the particular experience, and how it led you to become a better researcher/scholar/person, etc. Content in the Personal Statement should complement rather than duplicate the content contained within the Academic Statement of Purpose, which should focus explicitly on your academic interests, previous research and/or relevant professional experience, and intended area of academic focus during your graduate studies.
• MPS or PhD?
  
  The MPS is intended for persons who want a short-term (1 year) Master's degree so as to go into business, industry, or government statistical work. At Cornell, if you want to go on for a PhD after the MPS you must apply as a new student to the PhD program; you would be considered as part of the pool of PhD applicants and, if admitted, you might be able to apply some of your MPS coursework but there is no guarantee. The PhD program in Statistics at Cornell enrolls about 4-6 students per year; the MPS, about 60-70 students per year. The target time for completion of the PhD program is between 3 and 5 years; the actual time to completion varies by student
• What is your GRE cut-off score?
  
  The Department of Statistical Science does not have cut-offs for GRE scores, even though they are still required. Your application is made up of many other parts (recommendations, transcript, etc.) that are reviewed before a decision is made. We advise you to concentrate on making the whole application as strong as possible rather than concentrating on just one part of it.
• I am an international student who has been studying at a U.S. university. Do I still need a TOEFL score?
  
  As an international student, you would be required to have studied full-time for at least 2 academic years at an English-speaking University during the last five years. More information for exemptions to the TOEFL can be found on the Graduate School website.
• How many letters of recommendation are required for the application? How do I send them?
  
  Up to 3 letters of recommendation may be uploaded with the application; 2 of which are required and must be academic. The third, optional letter of recommendation can be academic or professional. All application materials, including letters of recommendation, must be submitted online.
• How much of a deposit do I need to pay for admission acceptance?
  
  In order to ensure that we reserve our limited space for serious applicants, we collect a deposit when you accept the admission offer from the MPS program in Applied Statistics at Cornell. At the time of accepting our admission offer, you must pay a deposit of $800. The deposit will be paid back to you after you come to Cornell and attend our MPS program, at the beginning of your graduate study. For those who do not come, the deposit is not refundable