2025 Best Statistics Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

a master's degree in statistics is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #48 out of 343 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 16 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Statistics Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,413 master's degrees in statistics during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Statistics School for Your Master's Degree

The stats master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality stats program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on statistics students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of statistics students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt statistics students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized statistics related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for statistics students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Statistics Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Statistics Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Statistics in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in statistics.

10 Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Master's in Stats

1

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

140 Annual Graduates

Johns Hopkins University is a good choice for individuals pursuing a master's degree in statistics. Located in the large city of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in statistics from Johns Hopkins University

2

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

33 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a master's degree in statistics has to check out University of Pennsylvania. UPenn is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Philadelphia.More information about a master’s in statistics from University of Pennsylvania

3

Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, NY

493 Annual Graduates

$122,051 Median Starting Salary

Columbia University in the City of New York is a great option for individuals interested in a master's degree in statistics. Columbia is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of New York.

Statistics master's degree recipients from Columbia University in the City of New York get an earnings boost of approximately $20,689 above the typical earnings of statistics majors.

More information about a master’s in statistics from Columbia University in the City of New York

4

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

71 Annual Graduates

Cornell University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a master's degree in statistics. Located in the small city of Ithaca, Cornell is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a master’s in statistics from Cornell University

5

New York University
New York, NY

202 Annual Graduates

$104,788 Median Starting Salary

NYU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of New York.

Those statistics students who get their master's degree from New York University receive $3,426 more than the typical stats student.

More information about a master’s in statistics from New York University

6

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

49 Annual Graduates

Carnegie Mellon is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Pittsburgh.More information about a master’s in statistics from Carnegie Mellon University

7

University of Delaware
Newark, DE

19 Annual Graduates

Located in the large suburb of Newark, UD is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in statistics from University of Delaware

8

Georgetown University
Washington, DC

33 Annual Graduates

$112,394 Median Starting Salary

Georgetown is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Washington.

Those statistics students who get their master's degree from Georgetown University make $11,032 more than the typical stats student.

More information about a master’s in statistics from Georgetown University

9

Temple University
Philadelphia, PA

11 Annual Graduates

Temple is a fairly large public university located in the city of Philadelphia.More information about a master’s in statistics from Temple University

10

Rutgers University - New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ

55 Annual Graduates

$93,967 Median Starting Salary

Located in the city of New Brunswick, Rutgers New Brunswick is a public university with a very large student population.

Master's students who receive their degree from the stats program make about $93,967 for their early career.

More information about a master’s in statistics from Rutgers University - New Brunswick

Best Statistics Colleges by State

Explore the best statistics colleges for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	261	987
Pennsylvania	248	201
Maryland	193	46
New Jersey	188	99
District of Columbia	154	152
Delaware	109	26

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Rankings in Majors Related to Stats

Statistics is one of 4 different types of Mathematics & Statistics programs to choose from.

Stats Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Statistics	1,212
Mathematical Statistics & Probability	119
Mathematics & Statistics	54
Other Statistics	28

Majors Similar to Stats

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Applied Mathematics	1,551
Mathematics	497
Applied Statistics	60
Other Statistics	10

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to QWFP. More about our data sources and methodologies.