Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Statistics

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  • Spokane

International Student English Proficiency Exams

International students may need to surpass the Graduate School’s minimum English language proficiency exam scores for this program. If the graduate program has unique score requirements, they will be detailed below. Otherwise, please refer to the Graduate School’s minimum score guidelines.

Degree Description:

The Healthcare Statistics Graduate Certificate at Washington State University College of Nursing provides rigorous statistical training for graduate students and health researchers seeking stronger quantitative skills for research, evidence-based practice, and health-related scholarship.  Designed for learners working in nursing, health sciences, public health, and clinical research, this fully online certificate builds practical expertise in statistical reasoning, research design, epidemiology, and quantitative data analysis.

 

Admission Requirements:

Applicants should have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited post-secondary institution and should have completed a basic undergraduate-level statistics course before beginning the certificate. Applicants may be asked to provide information about their current role, affiliation, planned or current research interests, and previous statistical coursework.

Application details, deadlines, and contact information will be posted soon. For questions about the Healthcare Statistics Graduate Certificate, please contact Wendy Ovall at wendy.ovall@wsu.edu.

 

Student Opportunities:

Students in the Healthcare Statistics Graduate Certificate have the opportunity to strengthen their ability to design, analyze, and interpret quantitative health research. Coursework introduces students to commonly used statistical methods in health and behavioral sciences, including descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, regression, multivariate analysis, longitudinal data analysis, epidemiological methods, and biometric approaches. Students also gain applied experience using statistical tools such as SPSS and Microsoft Excel.

Career Opportunities:

The Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Statistics supports students and professionals pursuing research, clinical, academic, public health, and health systems roles that require the ability to understand and apply statistical evidence. The certificate may be especially useful for those working in nursing, health sciences, healthcare research, evidence-based practice, program evaluation, clinical data analysis, epidemiology, and related fields where quantitative research skills are important.

Career Placements:

Students who complete the certificate will be prepared to apply statistical and epidemiological methods in health-related research, clinical decision-making, evidence-based practice, and graduate-level scholarly work. The certificate may complement existing graduate training for students seeking to strengthen their research preparation or expand their quantitative skills for healthcare and health sciences careers.

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