STA 2023

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Introduction to Statistics 1

3 credits

Offered: Fall, Spring & Summer

Statistics

Gen Ed: Mathematics

Descriptive statistics, probability, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing. Required for pre-health and a prerequisite for QMB 3250 in the business school.

Typical workload: ~5 hrs/week outside class

Do not delay. UF lists this in critical tracking for 24 majors, and 125 courses sit downstream of it in the prerequisite graph. Pushing it back can push back everything behind it.

Why students take this

From UF's official model plans and critical tracking, aggregated by TrackPilot.

Scheduled in 37 of 81 UF model plans, usually in semester 3 (sophomore year) and part of critical tracking for 24 majors.

Accounting

Agricultural Operations Management

Applied Physiology and Kinesiology

Business Administration, General Studies, BABA

Chemical Engineering

Construction Management

Criminology

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Civil Engineering

Data Science

+27 more majors

Prerequisites

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No prerequisites. Open to take anytime.

Common alternatives

Courses students weigh against this one (TrackPilot-curated; confirm against your major's requirements).

STA 3032 · Engineering Statistics

Intro statistics vs the calculus-assuming engineering statistics course. Engineering plans typically require STA 3032.

Usually taken with

Courses UF model plans put in the same semester as STA 2023.

What it unlocks

125 courses list this as a prerequisite (directly or downstream).

FIN 3403 · Business Finance

QMB 3250 · Statistics for Business Decisions

ADV 3500 · Digital Insights

AEB 3550 · Agricultural Data Analysis in Food and Resource Economics

ALS 3200C · AI in Agricultural and Life Sciences

APK 4720 · Artificial Intelligence for Movement Sciences

CAP 4792C · Data Mining with Social Data

ECH 4224L · Fluid and Energy Transfer Operations Laboratory

ECO 3430 · Economic Analysis of Data

ECO 4421 · Econometrics

EXP 4174C · Laboratory in Sensory Processes

FNR 3410C · Natural Resource Sampling

FOS 4722C · Quality Control in Food Systems

FYC 4801 · Applied Social Research Methods

GEO 3162C · Introduction to Quantitative Analysis for Geographers

GEO 3452 · Introduction to Medical Geography

GIS 3420C · GIS Models for Public Health

GIS 4121 · Geospatial Analysis

HSA 3111 · US Health Care System

HSA 4364 · Healthcare Operations Management, Strategy, and Quality

HSA 4430 · Health Economics

HSC 3057 · Research Methods and Issues in Health Science

HSC 3502 · Survey of Diseases and Disability

LEI 4880 · Research Methods in Tourism, Hospitality and Event Management

MAN 4504 · Operations and Supply Chain Management

MAR 3503 · Consumer Behavior

MCB 4324 · Computational Genomics and Epigenomics

PHC 3793 · Higher Thinking for Healthy Humans: AI in Healthcare and Public Health

PHC 4094 · Introduction to Biostatistics for Health Science and Public Health

PHC 4101 · Public Health Concepts

+19 more

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Career relevance

Critical for: Biomedical Research (PhD)

Fall 2026 sections

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In 37 of 81 model plans

Critical tracking for 24 majors

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