Low Percentage of U.S. Citizens
Earning Statistics Degrees Compared
to Other STEM Disciplines
Keith Crank, AsA Research and Graduate Education Manager
Statistics Updates
w
hile at JSM, I men- other disciplines at the bachelor’s
tioned to at least two and master’s levels (except for
audiences that statis- bachelor’s degrees in 2005).
News Flash tics has the lowest percentage of At the PhD level, only engi-
U.S. News and World Report will be survey-
degree recipients who are U.S. neering has lower percentages.
ing statistics departments separately from
citizens, when compared to other (Visit www.amstat.org/outreach/
mathematics departments for their rankings
STEM (science, technology, engi- departmentsurveys.cfm for graphs
of graduate programs. For the first time, the
neering, and mathematics) disci- that separate the broad disciplines
rankings of statistics departments will be
plines at all degree levels. into their component fields.)
based on reports from other statisticians.
Although no one questioned this Why does this matter? There
at JSM, I have received emails are two main reasons. First, for-
Survey of Statistics and Biostatistics
about it since. eign citizens are less likely than
Departments
Since 2002, statistics has had U.S. citizens to remain in the
Last spring, the AsA conducted its second
lower percentages of U.S. citizens United States once they earn
annual survey of PhD-granting departments
receiving degrees than all the their degree. Unless there are
of statistics and biostatistics. Approximately
half of the statistics departments and
a third of the biostatistics departments
responded to the questionnaire. A report
on the results is available at www.amstat. Citizenship of Bachelor’s Degree Recipients
org/outreach/departmentsurveys.cfm. Statistics Compared with Broad STEM Fields
NSF Program Officers in Statistics and
Probability
As the new academic year begins, there
are changes in the statistics and Probability
Program at the National science Foundation
(NsF). Gabor szekely remains a permanent
employee; David stoffer of the university
ens
of Pittsburgh continues for a second year;
and Grace Yang returns to NsF, replacing
Yazhen Wang, who moved to the university t US Citiz
of Wisconsin. Tomek Bartoszynski remains
c
en
the program director for probability. The
P
er
current program directors are the following:
Gabor Szekely (gszekely@nsf.gov)
David Stoffer (dstoffer@nsf.gov)
Grace Yang (gyang@nsf.gov)
Tomek Bartoszynski (tbartosz@nsf.gov)
Year
28 AMsTAT NEWs OCTObER 2009
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