Welcome to the Applied Statistics Ph.D. program at New Mexico State University (NMSU). Our program provides graduates with the knowledge of a range of applied statistical methods, both basic and advanced, sufficient to independently solve complex data problems in a collaborative research environment, to teach these methods at the undergraduate level, and to contribute substantively to the development of grant proposals and applied research publications.

Courses in our program are designed to give students opportunities to work with real data, with a focus on the use of statistics to solve applied problems and the communication of statistical results. Students in the doctoral program have opportunities to work on collaborative applied research projects, joining teams already in place in public health, the agricultural sciences, the environmental sciences, and other disciplines.