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Does anyone know where the two above schools place their graduates. More specifically, if they place well in academia? I found it interesting that, despite its lower ranking, Purdue lists its graduate placements, while PSU and A&M do not. I guess I can find out this information on visits, but since I am working and not in school, I have to be more selective about which schools I decide to visit since I have to take time off.

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I've seen a lot of PSU graduates working at top statistics departments (at the level of the programs that you applied to, if that's the type of job you would want).  I get the impression that Penn State places better than you might expect for their ranking.  Off the top of my head, I can think of alum working at Minnesota Stat, Minnesota Biostat, Ohio State Stat; I'm sure there are many, many more.  Not very sure about A&M.  I didn't see their (recent) grads popping up very much while exploring faculty.  I think that big programs like Iowa State, Purdue, and A&M's rankings might be a little inflated because of their size.  It's hard to really give an idea of a "typical" placement for schools like these when they are some of the largest programs in the country.

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Thanks for the response. I always thought PSU's department was about as large as Purdue and A&M. I guess I will have to seriously consider PSU. Anyone else's responses would be appreciated!

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I emailed A&M to find out their placements. They replied back with a list of their 2014 placements, which I'll list below (academic placements in green).

-Senior Specialist with LG-CNS in Seoul, Korea
-AVP Risk Modeler at JP Morgan Chase in Columbus, OH
-Associate Analyst at Quantum Reservoir Impact in Katy, TX
-Post Doc at Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium
-Associate Professor at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN

-Senior Analyst at AIG in New York, NY
-Post Doc at University of Mannheim in Mannheim, Germany
-ITS Intern Grad with Anadarko Petroleum Corporation in Conroe, TX
-Post Doc with Duke University in Durham, NC
-Research Scientist with Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, IN
-AVP Corporate Investment Analyst with Bank of America in Charlotte, NC
-Assistant Professor at Purdue University
-Statistician at Ceva Biomune in Lenexa, KS 

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^ I would be skeptical of the associate professor placement at Purdue  :unsure:

 

I was just reading a paper by the 2014 A&M graduate who started as an assistant professor at Purdue. The affiliations indicate his advisor (F. Liang) has recently moved to the biostat department at Florida, FYI.

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^ I would be skeptical of the associate professor placement at Purdue  :unsure:

 

I was just reading a paper by the 2014 A&M graduate who started as an assistant professor at Purdue. The affiliations indicate his advisor (F. Liang) has recently moved to the biostat department at Florida, FYI.

 

I was pretty skeptical about that myself. I imagine it was some sort of typo. That's a little unfortunate, but I guess I was not really interested in biostats anyway. A more interesting metric (and one that is hard to find anywhere) would be the proportion of graduates who received academic positions out of the subset that were looking for them. Do more students just choose to go to industry rather than work in academic positions?

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Does anyone know where the two above schools place their graduates. More specifically, if they place well in academia? I found it interesting that, despite its lower ranking, Purdue lists its graduate placements, while PSU and A&M do not. I guess I can find out this information on visits, but since I am working and not in school, I have to be more selective about which schools I decide to visit since I have to take time off.

Hi, I also applied for A&M. Did they ask you to send official GRE score and transcript? Thanks!

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Does anyone know where the two above schools place their graduates. More specifically, if they place well in academia? I found it interesting that, despite its lower ranking, Purdue lists its graduate placements, while PSU and A&M do not. I guess I can find out this information on visits, but since I am working and not in school, I have to be more selective about which schools I decide to visit since I have to take time off.

Hi, which program did you apply? biostat or stat?

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