Part I. Sample courses and programs 

Statistics courses can be found in research universities, comprehensive universities and colleges, liberal arts colleges, and other institutions.  Most research universities have a separate department of statistics (or biostatistics, or both); this is seldom the case for other types of institutions.  Our recommendations focus mainly on institutions without such a separate department of statistics and therefore on minors and concentrations.  Many of these institutions offer some version of a statistics minor or concentration, an applied mathematics minor, or an interdisciplinary joint statistics minor.  In what follows we refer to all of these as minors or concentrations.

Good examples of statistics courses and programs can be found among nationally ranked statistics departments.  Most readily available on the Internet are lists of departmental courses; in some cases, full syllabi are available for all or most of their courses.    Following are some samples.

Programs and courses

• Harvard University  archived here | original URL: http://www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/courses-exams/courses-instruction/statistics 
  and this diagram of their courses archived here | original URL http://www.stat.harvard.edu/Academics/StatTree2011.html

• Carnegie-Mellon University, with details on requirements for a major and minor and other options:
  • Carnegie-Mellon Major: http://www.stat.cmu.edu/academics/undergraduate/the-major-in-statistics
  • Carnegie-Mellon Minor: http://www.stat.cmu.edu/academics/undergraduate/the-minor-in-statistics
  • Carnegie-Mellon Courses: http://coursecatalog.web.cmu.edu/dietrichcollegeofhumanitiesandsocialsciences/departmentofstatistics/courses/
    
    
• University of Chicago  http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/statistics/#courseinventory

• University of Michigan: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/stats
  • Program: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/students/academicsrequirements/majorsminors/statistics/majorstatistics
  • Courses: https://webapps.lsa.umich.edu/CrsMaint/Public/CB_PublicBulletin.aspx?crselevel=ug
• University of Washington courses:    http://www.washington.edu/students/crscat/stat.html

 Course lists with syllabi 

• Ohio State University   http://www.stat.osu.edu/content/course-catalog-semesters

• California State Polytechnic University, a comprehensive institution http://statistics.calpoly.edu/content/courses

• Rowan University, a comprehensive institution  http://www.rowan.edu/colleges/csm/departments/math/syllabi/courses.htm (Not yet archived: each course is on individual page.)

Minors or concentrations at comprehensive universities

• Wright State University’s Mathematics and Statistics Department
  • Department website http://www.wright.edu/cosm/departments/math/undergraduateprograms/minors/index.html
  • Catalog: http://catalog.wright.edu/courses/level/undergraduate (not archived. Need a page for each course.)
• The State University of New York at Fredonia http://www.fredonia.edu/department/interdisciplinary/statistics.asp
• Department: http://www.fredonia.edu/department/interdisciplinary/statistics.asp
• Minor: http://www.fredonia.edu/department/math/docs/checklist%20stat%20minor.pdf

Minors or concentrations at liberal arts colleges

• St. Lawrence University http://www.stlawu.edu/math-computer-science-and-statistics/statistics-minor
• Macalester College
  • Minor description: (http://www.macalester.edu/academics/mscs/majorsminors)
  • Courses: http://www.macalester.edu/academics/mscs/courses/
• Mt. Holyoke College
  • Minor description: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/math/statistics
  • Courses: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/sites/default/files/registrar/bulletin/docs/dept_stat.pdf