Biostat departments

[geekstats]

Could someone please comment on the size of the Biostat departments at Columbia, Emory and Upenn? Are their cohort sizes reasonably large (likes of UNC, Michigan) or very small (like Brown, Berkeley)?

I wasn’t able to find much about this on their websites.

Thanks !

 

[Robatum1030]

4 hours ago, geekstats said:

Could someone please comment on the size of the Biostat departments at Columbia, Emory and Upenn? Are their cohort sizes reasonably large (likes of UNC, Michigan) or very small (like Brown, Berkeley)?

I wasn’t able to find much about this on their websites.

Thanks !

 

Hello! I'm currently a first-year biostats PhD student at Columbia. My cohort is 5 students (1 came in with a biostats Masters from Harvard, and the other 4, including myself, came in with a BS in applied math or stats). Emory's program has a cohort of ~8 (4 Masters and 4 Bachelors). That's what I was told during their summer biostats program. UPenn is approximately 6-8 students, but I'm not sure what their usual Masters/Bachelors breakdown is, but I believe they try to keep them roughly even. They invited me to their Interview Day, and I was rejected shortly after.

Edited September 5, 2019 by Robatum1030