The Graduate Certificate in Applied Statistical Strategies offers recognition of your for-credit, graduate-level training in statistical methods.  You can earn this certificate through a combination of traditional on-campus courses, online courses, and/or an intensive three-week short course.

What Recent Recipients Say about the Certificate Program:

Ning He (Fall, 2007)

I received the Certificate from the University Registrar yesterday.   Wow, it was so fast and beyond my expectation.  My family is excited to see the Certificate.  Though I chose only one course per semester, I learned much about statistics.  Also, I like the online system which made my schedule more flexible.  This program provides us, who are not in the major, a good chance to know what is and how to use statistics.  I will highly recommend it to my friends.  I highly appreciate the effort from you and the other professors.

Joe Staven, Plan Automation Analyst (Spring, 2006)

The Certificate Program has not only helped me advance my career and professional credentials, it's given me foundational statistical understanding and tools to address the data challenges and problems in business and society today. The classes were very helpful in introducing a broad range of applied statistical techniques as well as concentrating extensively on essential practical skills through research and projects.  The classes were well taught, the professors were very helpful and available, and the material and skills have been valuable to me in pursuing a career in data analytics. I highly recommend this certificate program.

Gary E. Erickson, Configuration Aerodynamics Branch, NASA Langley Research Center (Spring, 2006)

The wind tunnel testing community in academia, industry, and the federal government strives for the highest quality
and reproducibility of experimental data obtained on ground, air, and space vehicles.  The knowledge and insights
that are gained from the application of advanced statistical methods to data obtained from formally-designed experiments are key elements in the development of future commercial and military vehicles.  As an experimental aerodynamicist involved in subsonic, transonic, and supersonic wind tunnel testing, it is essential that I have a solid background in statistical methods and experimental design.  The Graduate Certificate Program in Applied Statistical Strategies offered by the Department of Statistics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, provided an opportunity to obtain the desired formal educational training in statistics, regression analysis, design of experiments, and data mining that are extremely useful in my day-to-day professional activities.  The quality of the courses, the instruction provided by the Statistics Department faculty, and the Centra on-line live presentation format was exceptional.  The on-line format and the scheduling of the classes allowed me to participate in the four courses required by the certificate program in a seamless manner with my full-time employment.  The UTK Statistics Department Graduate Certificate Program serves an invaluable role to students and professional alike who must apply advanced statistical methods in the classroom and working environments.

** Opinions expressed in this email are strictly those of the author and do not constitute an endorsement by the
federal government.
 

 

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To Register for Courses

Fees

Other Graduate Statistics Programs

Certificate Recipients

The Certificate requires successful completion (average of B or better) of four applied statistics courses, to include:

	Stat 571, Statistical Methods*
	Stat 572, Applied Regression Analysis*

and two other courses, which may be selected from:

	Stat 566: Statistical Techniques in Industrial Processes
	Stat 567: Applied Reliability
	Stat 573: Design of Experiments*
	Stat 574: Data Mining*
	Stat 575: Applied Time Series
	Stat 578: Categorical Data Analysis
	Stat 579: Applied Multivariate Methods*

* These courses may be taken on campus or via distance mode, using UT Outreach & Continuing Education’s award-winning Web-based Cyberclass technology.  Other courses are presently offered on-campus, only.

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If you are not already enrolled in a graduate program at U.T., then make regular application to the Graduate School electronically at http://web.utk.edu/~gsinfo/ with the following information:

• Under Major, enter Applied Statistical Strategies
• Under Degree, enter Certificate

Follow the instructions for submitting transcripts and the $35 processing fee (no GRE or letters of recommendation required).

Completed applications are forwarded to the Statistics Department, and you will be informed when you are accepted into the program.  Then you may register for courses (see below).

Upon satisfactory completion of the four courses (which must be done within six years), obtain from the Graduate School and fill out the Completion of Certificate Program form and obtain signatures of Dr. Mary Sue Younger (msyounger@utk.edu), Program Coordinator, and Dr. Kenneth Gilbert, Department Head.  The Graduate School will produce a certificate for you.

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Register for courses online at Circle Park Online:  http://cpo.utk.edu/

On-Campus Sections

Typical offerings of on-campus sections

Timetable last updated on 06/30/2008.

Cyberclass Sections

Typical offerings of Cyberclass sections

Timetable last updated on 06/30/2008.

For information about the Cyberclass technology, please see http://anywhere.tennessee.edu/de/tech.

Rules regarding in-state and out-of-state tuition for graduate courses may be found at http://registrar.utk.edu/residency/residency.shtml.   

Current costs may be found at http://web.utk.edu/~bursar.  There is no additional charge for Cyberclass sections.  

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A statistics minor in conjunction with your Master’s or Doctoral degree in another field, through the Intercollegiate Graduate Statistics Program.  The IGSP allows you to count up to 9 hours toward both your degree and the minor.  Please see http://bus.utk.edu/stat/igsp.

The M.S. degree in Statistics, either stand-alone or in conjunction with your Doctorate in another field, through the IGSP (above).  Requires 21 additional hours (including 6 hours of theory) beyond the Certificate.  Please see http://bus.utk.edu/stat/ms/index.html.

	The Ph.D. in Business Administration, with concentration in Statistics.  Please see http://bus.utk.edu/stat/phd/phdpage.html.
	Click here if you would just like to take a Statistics Graduate Course via Distance

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		UT Program*
Spring 2002	Kenneth R. Odom Christopher Shawn Perkins Shijin Ren Lok Hang Wan	Civil Engineering Chemical Engineering Statistics
Summer 2002	Mithun Kamat	Chemical Engineering
Fall 2002	Joel B. Chesser
Spring 2003	Jing He Baris Korlu Steven K. Moore Pamela Mandrell Scott	Biochemistry Industrial Engineering Mathematics Statistics
Summer 2003	Dennis T. Humphrey
Fall, 2003	Yemin Ji John S. Placyk Piotr Styczen	Management Science Ecology & Evol. Biology Business Administration
Spring, 2004	Lingchen Liao Michael Polson Haoming Rong	Chemical Engineering Statistics Human Ecology
Fall, 2004	Anshuman Mehrotra Ioana Sofia Pacurar	Management Science Management Science
Spring, 2005	Victoria Barnes	Business Administration
	Jun Ding	Statistics
	Brian Anthony Golek
	Robert Keyser	Statistics
	Melody Rush	Statistics
	Xinji Shi	Management Science
	Eric Brice Stephens
	James B. Tittle	Aerospace Engineering
	Derek Alan Turner
Fall, 2005	Lu Che	Management Science
	Weiwei Chen	Statistics
Spring, 2006	Gary E. Erickson
	Paula Federico	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
	Ning Ning Hong	Management Science
	Fei Liu	Biomedical Engineering
	Joe Staven
	Michael Sterling	Statistics
Fall, 2006	Meredith Allen
	Matthew Harper	Statistics
Spring, 2007	Qionghui (Shelley) Zhang	Child and Family Studies
	Dennis Waddell
Fall, 2007	Greg Iocco
	Ning He
	Haitao Xu	Materials Science and Engineering
Spring, 2008	Chung-Hao Chen	Electrical and Computer Engineering
	Fengxiao Liu	Materials Science and Engineering
	Liang Wu	Materials Science and Engineering
	Michael F. Raible	Maintenance and Reliability Engineering

* If no program indicated, the student was enrolled only in the Certificate Program.