Muscatel Darjiling

I'm a theory PhD at UCSC CS; stat department is good, probably will expand over the next few years. As others have noted, they're very heavily Bayesian; someone also noted that Abel Rodriguez left but he's part of a 4 institute NSF grant on data science and and moved from one of those (UCSC) to another (UW) and there's still enough chatter going on b/w these institutes. It also depends on what you expect from a stat PhD. If you're looking to do some analytical probability/stat mech type stuff, you probably won't get much of it at UCSC. Plus Stat dept works pretty closely with CS so there's that kind of work if you care about it.