Statistics, the theory, methodology and practice of analyzing data, is a fundamental tool in all sciences, and has emerged as a central tool for prediction in a host of applications that have evolved around mobile computing, finance, marketing and the world wide web. The Master's program in Statistics at the University of Chicago is an exciting combination of a professional degree preparing you for work in these emerging fields, and, for those who wish, a preparation for doctoral study in any field in which statistics or data science is heavily used. The Department of Statistics has been recognized for the high quality of its faculty and the diversity of its interests. Beyond expertise in statistics methodology, machine learning, biostatistics, and probability, the faculty is actively engaged in interdisciplinary research areas, such as genetics, mathematical finance and econometrics, environmental statistics, computational neuroscience, computational chemistry, machine learning and pattern recognition, scientific computation, survey methodology, and more.