Application Requirements

Applicants should visit Graduate Admissions for application information, forms, and instructions, including general graduate school application requirements, and should note deadlines and test requirements.

The application form must be submitted on-line. Please submit all supporting materials for your application on-line where possible and otherwise mailed in one envelope. Mail supporting materials (including the fee, unless paid on-line) in time to be received at the appropriate admissions office.

Office of Graduate and Professional Admissions
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
18 Bishop Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8530, U.S.A.
(732) 932-7711

Applicants who have submitted all required admissions materials will receive a response from the Graduate School-New Brunswick.

Applicants may check the status of their application on-line.

One may apply to multiple graduate programs at Rutgers. A separate fee must be paid for each program that one applies to. Please contact graduate admissions to arrange for your credentials to be shared with other programs.

Graduate students who wish to transfer to the Department of Statistics to earn our master's degree instead of their current degree should visit the Graduate School-New Brunswick Degree Program Transfer page.

Non-Degree Admissions

Students have the option of applying to our program as a Non-Degree student. As a non-degree student you can take 12 credits of courses offered by the Graduate Program in Statistics and Biostatistics. Students who have applied and been admitted as a non-degree student, and who later wish to apply for a Rutgers degree program, must pay another application fee. For non-degree admission, we require a transcript showing two semesters of calculus, or one senior level undergraduate statistics course, equivalent to Rutgers 640:151-2 or 960:401 respectively, or more. Application information is available from the Apply — Three Easy Steps page: please read the Non-degree Graduate Study paragraph under the heading Further Information. There is generally an application fee to apply for non-degree student. You will also need a special permission number from the Graduate Program in Statistics and Biostatistics, after applying to be a non-degree student, in order to register for one or more courses. This process should be completed in advance of the start of the desired semester and early application is advised.

Non-Matriculated Admissions

Students whose appropriateness for the graduate programs in statistics and biostatistics is not clear may, at the discretion of the admissions committee, be offered non-matriculated admission. A non-matriculated student can take 12 credits of courses offered by the Graduate Program in Statistics and Biostatistics. Under these circumstances, the admissions decision is reconsidered after the student has completed the first few courses in the program. On reconsideration, if the admissions committee decides that the student is appropriate for the program, the student's status is changed to "Matriculated", and no further fee is assessed.

Applications for Transfer from non-Rutgers Programs

The admissions procedure is the same for transfer students as it is for students just starting their graduate study of Statistics and Biostatistics.
Students can apply to transfer credits for graduate courses with a grade of B or better, provided they replace appropriate courses offered by our program, and credit for such courses was not used to earn a previous undergraduate degree. Maximum numbers of credits that may be transferred is different for the MS and Ph.D. degrees. Permission to transfer credit is granted on a case-by-case basis and is not granted automatically. Please see the general Graduate School-New Brunswick rules for transfer of credit for full details. Students may not transfer any credits from another university until they have completed 12 credits as a matriculated student.

Applications for Readmission

Students whose student status has lapsed do to a student's failure to maintain registration may apply for readmission, by submitting the proper form to the graduate school.

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