CAREERS INVOLVING PROBABILITY
AND STATISTICS
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
Atmospheric Science
Bioinformatics
Biomathematics
Biostatistics
Ecological/Environmental Statistics
Educational Testing and Measurement
Environmental Health Sciences
Epidemiology
Financial Engineering/Financial Mathematics/Mathematical Finance/Quantitative Finance
Government Service
Industrial Statistics
Medicine
If you are considerinb becoming a doctor but like math and statistics, you might consider one of the following:
- 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.
Meteorology/Atmospheric Science
Nursing Research
- 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.
Operations Research
Pharmaceutical Research
Public Health
Public Policy
Quality Improvement
Reliability
Risk Analysis (also known as Risk
Assessment)
Risk Management and Insurance
Social Statistics
Statistical Computing
Statistics
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