• Focus on getting excellent grades in your first semester. 
  • Take Professional Development – GR 5391 section 003 – MA2PhD Seminar Series
    • You will register on a managed waitlist. 
    • The instructor will choose the students off the waitlist to join the roster of GR 5391 section 003. 
  • Take Ph.D. level courses, if you qualify.  Apply HERE.     

All students, including students not interested in pursuing a PhD, should excel in class projects, data science hackathons/competitions, and activities organized by on-campus student associations such as the Columbia Statistics Club or the Columbia Data Science Society.