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The Bayesian Overlords

The historical masters of variance. They breathe probability distributions and will aggressively judge you if you use a pie chart in a presentation.

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 Stanford
Stanford, CA
Stanford, CA — 4% — — — —
2 U. of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Berkeley, CA 64 11% 48% / 52% 30% $128,901 —
3 U. of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL 27 5% 52% / 48% 44% $161,199 —
4 Carnegie Mellon
Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh, PA 111 11% 47% / 53% 25% $158,189 —
5 Harvard
Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA 46 3% 65% / 35% 15% $212,788 —

Biostat & Polling Heavyweights

Where the real health, epidemiological, and election data gets crunched. They are the reason we know if a vaccine works or who is winning a swing state.

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 U. of Washington
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA 31 42% 65% / 35% 45% — —
2 Johns Hopkins
Baltimore, MD
Baltimore, MD — 6% — — — —
3 U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
Chapel Hill, NC 41 17% 29% / 71% 7% — —
4 U. of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Ann Arbor, MI 84 16% 57% / 43% 55% $112,228 —
5 Duke
Durham, NC
Durham, NC 40 5% 53% / 48% 18% $129,549 —

Actuary Factories

Calculating premium rates, mortality tables, and risk with ruthless efficiency. They have already predicted exactly when you will crash your car.

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 U. of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI
Madison, WI 51 41% 69% / 31% 43% — —
2 Purdue
West Lafayette, IN
West Lafayette, IN — 43% — — — —
3 Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, TX
College Station, TX 44 52% 59% / 41% 9% $104,849 —
4 Rutgers University - New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ
New Brunswick, NJ 58 55% 64% / 36% 45% — —
5 U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
Champaign, IL 277 37% 70% / 30% 40% $105,971 —

The "Wanted to Code but Couldn't" Club

Switched from CS to Stats when Data Structures and Algorithms got too hard. Now crying over stochastic processes and trying to pivot into Data Science.

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl 5-Year Earn
1 Columbia
New York, NY
New York, NY — 4% — — — —
2 Cornell
Ithaca, NY
Ithaca, NY 41 7% 49% / 51% 29% $141,134 —
3 UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA 207 9% 54% / 46% 27% $83,322 —
4 U. of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA — 12% — — — —
5 U. of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD
College Park, MD — 45% — — — —