The Kansas University Edwards Campus is adding its 10th degree program with money from the Johnson County Education Research Triangle initiative, a tax that voters approved in 2008.

The new program is an online graduate degree in applied statistics and analytics, which begins this fall, the Edwards Campus announced Tuesday.

The degree addresses the fast-growing demand for statisticians in industries such as transportation, insurance, manufacturing and health care, according to the Edwards Campus news release. KU is the only school in the region to offer this master’s degree. It is the first joint program between KU Edwards and KU Medical Center.

In exchange for the roughly $5 million that the one-eighth-cent JCERT sales tax generates each year, Edwards Campus committed to adding 10 degree programs supporting business, engineering, science and technology, according to the school. The campus also invested $23 million in a new building dedicated to the fields.