The Master of Statistics is an interdepartmental degree administered by the University Statistics Committee. Participating departments include Family and Preventive Medicine, Economics, Educational Psychology, Management, Mathematics and Sociology. The M.Stat. degree program functions autonomously, overseeing its own admissions, student supervision, and examinations. Its similarities with the GS program lie primarily in its broadly interdepartmental basis. Its contrasts include its focus on master's level students and its status as an independent degree program without student matriculation in home departments.