UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS IN MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS

A female student listens to a lecture in a mathematics class.

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics offers undergraduate majors and minors in both Mathematics and Statistics.

Students who complete an undergraduate major in Mathematics or Statistics will be prepared for a broad range of career opportunities in business, government and industry. By choosing appropriate elective courses, they can also prepare for graduate study in Mathematics, Statistics or a related field.

WHY MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS?

Awarding-winning teacher scholars

Our faculty earn recognition for their innovative teaching and grants for their relevant research. Our students reap the benefits—working alongside faculty on their research.

Courses that count

We offer a variety of courses pertinent to interdisciplinary fields and topics of interest. Students can take courses like coding theory, cryptography, data science, biostatistics and history of mathematics.

Student organizations

We have several student organizations, including Math Club, Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and Villanova Society of Actuaries.

DataFest Philly

Villanova often hosts the annual DataFest Philly competition. Put on by the American Statistical Association, DataFest is a nationally-coordinated undergraduate data analysis case competition, where teams of students analyze a complex dataset from a major company and mine it for insights. DataFest has been hosted by colleges and universities around the country every spring since 2011.

CENTER FOR STATISTICS AND DATA SCIENCE EDUCATION

The Center promotes faculty research, creates relevant coursework and programming for Villanova students, and offers professional development to statistics teachers in the Philadelphia region.

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WHO WE ARE

JULIA SHMOOKLER ’23 CLAS

“In my first year of college, I took a stat class with Professor Chelsea Romito. I really admired how passionate she was about the subject,” says Statistics major Julia Shmookler ’23 CLAS. “The class made me recognize that I genuinely enjoyed statistics and would consider majoring in it. What I love most about stat is analyzing data and finding patterns. I find it very interesting to recognize relationships between variables,” she says. “I also like the flexibility of a stat major, because so many fields utilize statistics.”

JACK BOOMER ’21 CLAS

“The best part about a Math major is all the different fields you can enter upon graduation, from business to law to engineering and so much more,” says Utah native Jack Boomer ’21 CLAS. “With a math degree comes versatility.” The summer before his senior year, Jack landed an engineering internship with global aerospace and defense giant Northrop Grumman. He says the professors have been amazing—particularly Paul Pasles, PhD, and Elise Pasles, PhD. “They are husband-and-wife math dynamos, and they both do really well at conveying difficult ideas.”

SHANIYA PEART ’22 CLAS

“Studying math has forced me to become a more analytical person, able to really dive into problems and ideas to discern for myself their essence, and the various ways I can understand and approach them,” says Shaniya Peart ’22 CLAS, a Mathematics major. “And majoring in math provides me with skills that I can use in various fields.” A woman with many interests, she’s also pursuing minors in Russian Studies and Economics.