Statistics at College of the Holy Cross

A highly selective liberal arts college in Massachusetts estimates this program produces first-year earnings around $60,000—solid nationally but substantially below what the state's statistics market typically delivers. The seven statistics programs in Massachusetts show a median of $105,000, with Harvard grads earning $141,000 and even Smith College grads pulling $69,000. That gap matters in a state where tech and biotech employers routinely compete for quantitative talent.

The estimated debt of roughly $17,000 keeps the financial risk manageable, yielding a debt-to-earnings ratio of 0.28 that most families could handle. However, that comfort assumes the $60,000 estimate holds true, which draws from national program medians rather than Holy Cross's specific outcomes. For a school with a 1354 average SAT and 21% admission rate, you'd expect graduates to land toward the higher end of the earnings distribution, but without actual reported data, that's speculation.

The real question is whether Holy Cross's strong liberal arts foundation translates into competitive placement for statistics majors in Boston's data science job market. If the program emphasizes pure statistics over applied machine learning or business analytics, graduates might need additional technical skills to match what UMass or northeastern employers expect from statistics degree holders.