biostatguy Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Hello all, I know that this question could have N number of answers, but generally speaking, which Biostatistics departments would be considered as decent? Is there any range of ranking (particularly US News ranking for just Biostatistics departments and NOT Statistics departments) that classifies this particular group? e.g.10-20, 15-25, 20-40 etc. If there is no such range (or if you don't want to group them in such a way) then, which schools would you consider having decent Biostatistics departments? Thanks in advance!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoDUDE! Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 It should be fairly obvious by the faculty who work there; facutly with higher H-index/ more high impact publications tend to be at better departments (not always) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lelouch Lamperouge Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Hi, I asked a similar question several months ago and here is the list suggested by a biostatistics faculty in the forum. I think the U.S. News provides a pretty good ranking, though you have to spend a few minutes distinguishing stat from biostat. Roughly speaking, the top 10 places are: Harvard Hopkins Washington UNC Michigan Minnesota Berkeley Emory Penn Columbia I think you could also make an argument for departments like UCLA and Brown to show up in the last 2-3 slots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biostatguy Posted January 22, 2014 Author Share Posted January 22, 2014 Hi, I asked a similar question several months ago and here is the list suggested by a biostatistics faculty in the forum. Thanks Lelouch, But are these departments decent? they seem to be top 10-12 programs. I think decent programs might rank a little lower than them. Can you specify some schools that are decent (not too low and not too high..just in the middle range). It's relatively easy to determine the top programs but the picture get murkier when some little lower ranked schools are considered. Thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igotnothin Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 The 10 listed above are dece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisss Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 I believe the OP is asking for moderately good schools, not the top 10 or 15. This is also something I am very curious about. It seems at least on Grad Cafe, that after the top 10 schools the discussion dies out a bit. Does anyone know of schools for which students with sub 3.8 GPAs can be admitted to and learn quality (if not world-class excellent) biostatistics? Surely not everyone can have the nice 4.0 and Washington-Harvard-Hopkins aspirations, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidAndroid Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 Some schools ranked outside the top 10 in USNWR: Boston U University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Iowa University of Pittsburgh Virginia Commonwealth U The survey based NRC rankings: Michigan Washington Harvard Johns Hopkins UCLA Case Western Reserve Minnesota-Twin Cities Pittsburgh UNC-Chapel Hill Alabama at Birmingham Iowa Columbia Brown UC-Berkeley Virginia Commonwealth Emory SUNY-Albany Regression-based NRC rankings: Michigan Harvard Washington UCLA Johns Hopkins Minnesota-Twin Cities Iowa UNC-Chapel Hill Pittsburgh Brown Case Western Reserve Columbia Virginia Commonwealth Alabama at Birmingham UC-Berkeley Emory SUNY-Albany ParanoidAndroid and mhnaomi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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