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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 University
Stanford, CA
Stanford, CA — 4% — — — —
2 University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Berkeley, CA 64 11% 48% / 52% 30% $128,901 —
3 University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL 27 5% 52% / 48% 44% $161,199 —
4 Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh, PA 111 11% 47% / 53% 25% $158,189 —
5 Harvard University
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 University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA 31 44% 65% / 35% 45% — —
2 Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
Baltimore, MD — 5% — — — —
3 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
Chapel Hill, NC 41 16% 29% / 71% 7% — —
4 University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Ann Arbor, MI 84 15% 57% / 43% 55% $112,228 —
5 Duke University
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 University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI
Madison, WI 51 43% 69% / 31% 43% — —
2 Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
West Lafayette, IN — 50% — — — —
3 Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, TX
College Station, TX 44 47% 59% / 41% 9% $104,849 —
4 Rutgers University - New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ
New Brunswick, NJ 58 55% 64% / 36% 45% — —
5 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
Champaign, IL 277 43% 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 University
New York, NY
New York, NY — 4% — — — —
2 Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Ithaca, NY 41 7% 49% / 51% 29% $141,134 —
3 University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA 207 9% 54% / 46% 27% $83,322 —
4 University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA — 9% — — — —
5 University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD
College Park, MD — 42% — — — —