Biostatistics Career Guide

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Past Internship Sites:

  • QST Consultations, Ltd.
  • Spectrum Health
  • Gordon Food Services
  • Van Andel Institute
  • Meijer Corporate Offices
  • Grand Rapids Medical Education Partners
  • Hospice of Michigan
  • ViMax Publishing & Marketing, Inc.
  • Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy

Where Alumni Have Landed

  • Senior Manager Biostatistics – Acelity
  • Manager Biostatistics & Senior Biostatistician – Premier Research
  • Biostatistics Associate I – MPI Research
  • Senior Statistician – Eli Lilli and Company
  • Statistician – Michigan Department of Health & Human Services
  • Biostatistics Associate – MPI Research
  • Senior Forecast Analyst – Amway
  • Biometrician – Pfizer
  • Director of Analytics – Integrated Health Analytics
  • Research Associate – Community Mental Health of Ottawa County
  • Lead Statistical Consultant – GVSU Statistical Consulting Center
  • Manager of Biostatistics – Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • Medical Informatics Consultant – Priority Health
  • Data Scientist – Meridian Health Plan
  • Data Analyst – Steelcase
  • Statistician II – NCI, Inc.
  • Modeling and Analytics Consultant – Urban Science
  • Statistical Programmer II – IQVIA
  • Biostatistician – Charles River Laboratories
  • Lead Data Programmer and Associate Analyst – Metrica 

Student Organizations to Consider

  • American Statistical Association

Study Abroad Programs

Study Abroad is a great way for graduate students to earn credit, build your resume, complete an internship, or do research. With proper planning and advising, graduate students have opportunities to study or intern abroad. As with undergraduate study abroad, graduate students have the option of doing faculty-led programs, partnerships, non-GVSU programs or internships. 


Develop some of these technical and professional competencies to be successful:

  • SAS Programming
  • Data Analysis
  • SPSS
  • Transcribing
  • Data Cleaning
  • Logistic modeling
  • Sentiment analysis
  • Linear models

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Page last modified June 28, 2022