Statistics provides the reasoning and methods for producing and understanding data. Statisticians are specialists, but statistics demands they be generalists, too. One advantage of working in statistics is that you can combine your interest with almost any other field in science, technology, or business.
http://www.worldofstatistics.org/statistics-as-a-career/careers-in-statistics/
http://www.amstat.org/careers/whichindustriesemploystatisticians.cfm
http://www.bls.gov/ooh/math/statisticians.htm
The Graduate Program in Statistics awarded its first degree in 2010.
Our Master’s students are mostly staff statisticians in industry, or have continued their education to obtain a doctoral degree. A number of the Masters’ Degrees have been awarded to students who continued their education in the doctoral program in Statistics at the University of Arizona, receiving a Master’s Degree along their path.
The first doctoral defense in the Statistics Program was in February 2014. The placement of our doctoral students has been diverse – a postdoc in a Statistics Department, Assistant Professor in an elite liberal arts college, local biotech industry.
For a current list of MS and PhD graduates and their current appointments see the Program Alumni page.