Many careers involve heavy use of probability and statistics. Most of these professions are not commonly known. Here are some examples, with links to further information. There is overlap between some of the professions listed here. For example, there is overlap between biostatistics and epidemiology, between epidemiology and environmental health, between environmental health and risk assessment,  between Government Service, Public Policy, and Social Statistics, between Risk Management and Actuarial Science, etc.

OVERVIEW OF CAREERS IN STATISTICS (Has more links at the bottom)

Sloan Career Cornerstone Center

Statistics Occupational Outlook  (from U.S.  Department of Labor)

Actuarial Science

• Be An Actuary
• Actuarial Studies Program at UT Austin
  

Atmospheric Science 

• See Meteorology

Bioinformatics

• What is bioinformatics?
• Boston University graduate programs in bioinformatics
• University of California San Diego bioinformatics program
  

Biomathematics

• Dr. Lauren Ancel Meyers, a biomathematician at UT: An interview. More on her work.
• What is Biomathematics?
  

Biostatistics

• What is Biostatistics?
• Careers in Biostatistics
• Some graduate programs in Biostatistics
• Texas graduate programs in Biostatistics
• Also see Epidemiology and Public Health below.
  

• What are Ecological and Environmental Statistics?
• Fedstats Environment Page
• Iowa State University Environmental Statistics
  

• National Council on Measurement in Education Opportunities
• Educational Assessment, Testing and Measurement
• Advanced Topics of Measurement and Evaluation
• On the Nature of Testing and Assessment, an interview with Dr. Sharif Shakrani, a math major who is now deputy executive director of the National Assessment Governing Board
• May, 2006 New York Times article on the shortage of people in this field.

• What is Environmental Health Sciences?
• Also see Public Health below.
  

• What is Epidemiology?
• Also see Public Health below.
  

• What is Financial Engineering? (See especially the last description!)
• Schools offering Financial Engineering programs
  

• Council of Professional Associatons on Federal Statistics (Scroll to bottom of page and click on "Links to the Homepages of Federal Statistical and Other Agencies", under "Federal Links and Other Statistical Organizations" to get to home pages of most federal statistical agencies.)
  
• Fedstats "The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Agencies"
• Federal Agencies with Statistical Programs
  
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Bureau of Transportation Statistics
  
• Census Bureau
  
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention
• City Government: Profile of Math Major working as Transportation Engineer
  
• Economics and Statistics Administration
• Energy Information Administration: Profile of math major Renee Miller
  
• Food and Drug Administration
• National Agricultural Statistics Service
  
• National Center for Educational   Statistics
  
• National Center for Health Statistics
• National Center for Statistics and Analysis of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• National Security Agency Career Profile
  
• Texas Center for Health Statistics
• US Air Force: Profile of Scientist-Analyst
  
• U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
• Keeping Data Sources Confidential
  

•  The Life of an Industrial Statistician
• See also Quality Improvement below.
  

• Obtaining a Master's in Public Health (MPH) in addition to an MD degree. See the American Medical Students Association's website How to Get Your MD/MPH for more information on this possibility.
• Investigate the fields of Public Health (below), Nursing Research (below), Biostatistics (above) and Epidemiology (above). Some students who start college planning to be a physician find that one of these fields really appeals to them more.

• Sample Admission Criteria: University of Michigan   University of Colorado

• Florence Nightingale is often considered the founder of professional nursing. Using statistics to improve health care was an important part of her work.  She was elected a fellow of Britain's Royal Statistical Society for her contributions to the statistics of health care.
• Nursing and Statistics
• UT Austin Alternate Entry Nursing Ph.D. program (for students with degees in fields other than nursing who wish to do nursing research)
• See also Public Health below.

• What is Operations Research/Management Science?
• What is Operations Research?
• Career information
• Career Profiles
• Another Career Profile
• Still Another Career Profile
  
• Operations Research Occupational Outlook (Bureau of Labor)
  

• Career Profile (Download in pdf format)

• What is Public Health?
• Careers in Public Health
• Nursing and Statistics
  
• UT Society of Public Health Students This page has links to lots more resources about the field of Public Health, including suggestions of courses to take in other departments if you are interested in the field.
• University of Texas School of Public Health
• Accredited Schools of Public Health
• Milestones in Public Health podcasts
• Also see Biostatistics, Environmental Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Medicine, and Nursing Research above
  

• Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Advice on Policy Education
  

• Career Profiles
• See also Industrial Statistics above.
  

• Statistical Careers in Reliability
  

• What is Environmental Risk Assessment?

• American Risk and Insurance Association (Go to Education to see if they have their Careers page up)
  

• Statistics in the Social Sciences
• White House Social Statistics Briefing Room - Demography
  

• Careers in Statistical Computing

• Information on Careers in Statistics
• Schools offering degrees in Statistics

• Careers in Survey Research
  

This page created by Martha K. Smith, 8/8/01. Last updated 7/7/05. Please send comments and suggestions to mks@math.utexas.edu