The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Statistics ranked 3rd in Statistics Bachelor's Degrees awarded consistently through 2011-2015 according to a recent Science Policy article posted on AMSTATNews (The Membership Magazine of the American Statistical Association) by ASA Director of Science Policy, Steven Pierson. Additionally, The Department of Statistics Master's degree programs ranked 4th from the preliminary data released from  National Center for Education Statistics. 

Over the five year period that was ranked, the Department of Statistics' Bachelor's program awarded a total of 464 Bachelor's degrees. There was a 175 percent increase in degrees awarded between 2011-2015, from 52 degrees in 2011 to 143 degrees in 2015. Only Purdue University and UC Berkeley outpaced the University of Illinois in degrees awarded to undergraduate Statistics majors. 

The Master's degree programs consisting of a traditional M.S. degree, an Analytics Concentration program, and an Applied program ranked overall 4th during the reported survey, narrowly edging out the University of Michigan by one awarded degree. The Master's degree programs have seen a combined overall increase of 108 percent from 2011 through 2015. 

The article from AMSTATNews goes into more detail over the demographics of the degrees awarded during their survey, including percentages of degrees awarded to women in the field of Statistics.

For additional information on Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees awarded in Statistics and BioStatistics, see the original article here: http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2017/10/01/degrees16/