BIOSTAT at Harvard University

A suggested order for the 3 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate BIOSTAT coursework.

• BIOSTAT 231Statistical Inference Iopens 1 course (1 directly)
• BIOSTAT 232Methods Iopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate BIOSTAT work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 3 BIOSTAT and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 14 more BIOSTAT courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in BIOSTAT. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at BIOSTAT 244

  1. BIOSTAT 231Statistical Inference I
  2. BIOSTAT 244Analysis of Failure Time Data

Grade medians

Teaching in Spring 2027

Instructors on BIOSTAT sections in Spring 2027, from the registrar's schedule.

• Chen
• Coull
• Duan
• Franzosa
• Hejazi
• Lu
• Mukherjee

Harvard professor board

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under BIOSTAT yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

BIOSTAT does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Harvard campus feed.