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Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.
Generated from Northwestern University’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate STAT coursework.
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 STAT 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 60 STAT and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 10 more STAT courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on STAT, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Major Requirements (13 units)2 required · verify with the official sheet
3 required introductory courses:; 1 required proseminar; 5 Theme courses, one from each of the five themes listed below.; Theme: Brains & Bodies; Theme: Learning over Lifetimes; Theme: Models & Machines; Theme: Reasoning & Rhetoric; Theme: Collective Cognition; 4 Electives chosen from the Theme lists above or from the Electives listed below
Department Courses (12 units)2 required · verify with the official sheet
Introductory courses (2 units); Any two 200-level courses in Linguistics; Methods courses (3 units); 1 course from each of the following categories:; Statistical; Computational; Experimental; Advanced courses (7 units); 7 additional courses beyond the 200 level
Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
Gateway: IEMS 303-0
Gateway: MATH 311-1
Gateway: STAT 320-2
The deepest prerequisite chains in STAT. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
6 courses deep, ending at STAT 362-0
6 courses deep, ending at STAT 365-0
5 courses deep, ending at STAT 303-3
5 courses deep, ending at STAT 352-0
All STAT courses in the Northwestern catalog
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No clubs or organizations on record under STAT yet.
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