Students with a goal of PhD are admitted provisionally until they have passed the Basic Exam at the PhD level. Students who have not already received a Master's degree in Statistics from NCSU or another institution are strongly encouraged to get the Master of Statistics degree en route to the PhD. Students who were admitted to the Master's program, but wish to change to the PhD program must make a change of status request to the DGP.
PhD Co-Major
A student pursuing the Ph.D. co-major program must satisfy the requirements of both departments. In the past, co-major
degrees at the Ph.D. level were awarded jointly with Biomathematics, Crop Science, Economics and Operations Research.
The dissertation must embody the results of original research of a standard that would warrant publication in a research
journal from one or both of the two fields.
