This fall’s release of the 2022 degree completion data from the National Center for Education Statistics is marked by the large increases in the undergraduate and master’s degrees awarded in the recently introduced categories for data analytics and data science. The number of bachelor’s degrees in data science, for example, jumped to 897 in 2022, from 165 in 2021 and 84 in 2020. For bachelor’s degrees in data analytics, the 2020, 2021, and 2022 numbers are 325, 455, and 767, respectively.
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Highlights from 2017 Degree Release: Bachelor’s Numbers Close in on Master’s
The ratio of the number of master’s degrees to that of bachelor’s closed to 1.2 in 2017, the closest it’s been since 1987.
Counting Statisticians: How Many of Us Are There?
Keith Crank, ASA’s Research and Graduate Education Manager tries to answer the question: How many biostatisticians are there worldwide and how many statisticians are working in the United States?