Students majoring in statistics have the opportunity to graduate with honors in the major. Departmental honors students must maintain a GPA of at least 3.67 in their major and a cumulative University of Iowa GPA of at least 3.33.

To graduate with honors in the statistics major, students must complete an honors project or a suitable alternative. Statistics honors students should consult with the statistics undergraduate advisor.

Honors students in actuarial science must be members of the University of Iowa Honors Program, which requires that students maintain a cumulative UI GPA of at least 3.33. They also must maintain a GPA of at least 3.40 in departmental courses. 

To graduate with honors in the actuarial science major, students must complete the following five courses in addition to all courses required for the major: 

• FIN:3300 (06F:117) Corporate Finance, 3 semester hours
• MATH:3600 (22M:100) Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations, 3 semester hours
• STAT:4510 (22S:150) Regression, Time Series, and Forecasting (or STAT:3200&3210), 3 semester hours
• ACTS:6480 (22S:177) Loss Distributions, 3 semester hours
• ACTS:6580 (22S:176) Credibility and Survival Analysis, 3 semester hours

Students majoring in data science have the opportunity to graduate with honors in the major. They must maintain a GPA of at least 3.67 in their major and a cumulative University of Iowa GPA of at least 3.33. Students must complete an honors thesis.

Students are responsible for finding a faculty member willing to supervise their honors project. The faculty member must approve the proposed project and a timetable for the work. Credit for thesis work must be earned in either CS:3990 Honors in Computer Science or Informatics for work supervised by a computer science faculty member or an honors course supervised by a statistics and actuarial science faculty member.

Honors in data science also satisfies the 12 semester hours experiential learning requirement for University of Iowa honors students.