Admission Offer

If you have been given an admission offer to join the Department of Statistics, you will receive a notification email that the department is recommending you for admission to the Graduate College. You must accept this recommendation offer before the department submits the recommendation to the Graduate College. Once the department receives your decision notification we will submit that information to the Graduate College. Based on our recommendation they will issue the official admission offer via email. You must accept the Graduate College’s admission offer through the link provided in the offer email. If you are unable to accept the admission offer through the provided link, you can email stat-admissions@illinois.edu with your decision and we will be able to manually submit your decision on your behalf.

Admission Rejection

Unfortunately, not everyone who applies will be admitted to the Statistics program. If your application is denied admission to the program you will receive notification via email from the department. Due to the nature of our highly competitive program and the increased number of applications we receive each admission cycle we unfortunately cannot discuss or comment on reasons your particular application was denied admission to the program.

As a PhD applicant, if you are denied admission to the PhD program you are permitted to have your application recoded for consideration to the MS program with no additional application fees. You will need to notify the office by emailing stat-admissions@illinois.edu with your request to have your application recoded. 

If you feel though that you would still be a good candidate for our program you are more than welcome to apply during the next admission cycle.

Admission Deferral

For PhD deferrals, you will not automatically be eligible for admission if you defer to a different term. Your application will be recoded to the following admission cycle and be reviewed along with any new applications to the program.