Your complete guide to studying Statistics

Everything you need to know about studying Statistics in 2024

part of Natural Sciences & Mathematics

Statistics comprises of a set of mathematical techniques that help in analysing collected data. Professionals interpret data and turn it into information, by measuring, controlling and communicating uncertainty. They build conceptual frameworks in hopes of predicting future behaviour using numbers logic from current events.

Statistics teaches how to use statistical thinking, parameters and methods to explain results and to anticipate possible outcomes in diverse scientific, social and business issues. Therefore, statistics is a valuable tool used in other disciplines such as Medicine, Natural Sciences, Sociology, Economics, Marketing, and more. Regardless of the subject where it’s applied in, Statistics is based on gathering data, summarising information, drawing conclusions and making predictions.

Statistics specialisations include: statistics and measurement, statistical inference, econometrics, quantitative methods of the financial markets, statistics in life sciences, computational finance, biostatistics.

Statistics students have excellent grades in Mathematics and at least one other science subject. Students develop computer literacy and transferable abilities such as analytical skills, sound logic, the capacity to interpret vast amounts of information and to effectively communicate results.

Statistics graduates can easily find jobs wherever there is the need for decision-making based on data. They can become business analysts, economists, mathematicians, data analysts, risk analysts, environmental scientists and may naturally advance in managerial positions. Professionals work in various industries, such as medicine, health care and pharmaceuticals, marketing research, public administration, sociology, business, or insurance.

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Check out our list of Master's degrees in Statistics. Keep in mind you can also study an online Masters in Statistics.

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Universities Location Shanghai Jiao Tong University Ranking (2017) TopUniversities Ranking (2018)
Harvard University Cambridge, United States 1 1
Stanford University Stanford, United States 2 3
University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, United States 3 4
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, United States 4 31
Duke University Durham, United States 5 28
Columbia University New York City, United States 6 15
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, United States 7 22
University of Wisconsin Madison Madison, United States 8 25
Texas A&M University College Station, United States 9 41
University of Chicago Chicago, United States 10 20
Princeton University Princeton, United States 11 17
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, United States 12 9
University of Toronto Pickering, Canada 13 17
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, United States 14 14
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, United States 15 13
Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, United States 16 32
University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom 17 5
University of Minnesota Twin Cities Minneapolis, United States 18 -
North Carolina State University Raleigh, United States 19 51
University of Washington Seattle, United States 20 12
National University of Singapore Singapore, Singapore 21 8
Pennsylvania State University State College, United States 22 43
Sorbonne University Paris, France 23 51
University of California, Davis Davis, United States 24 51
Yale University New Haven, United States 25 29
ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Switzerland 26 10
University of Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom 27 6
University of Warwick Coventry, United Kingdom 27 24
Melbourne Business School Melbourne, Australia 29 30
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, United States 30 2
University of Texas at Austin Austin, United States 31 51
Rutgers University New Brunswick, United States 32 51
Purdue University West Lafayette, United States 33 35
University of Bath Bath, United Kingdom 34 101
University College London (UCL) London, United Kingdom 35 27
University of Paris Sud Orsay, France 36 151
KU Leuven Brussels, Belgium 37 46
University of Waterloo Waterloo, Canada 37 51
University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada 39 38
University of Southern California Los Angeles, United States 40 101
Cornell University Ithaca, United States 41 16
The Ohio State University Upper Arlington, United States 42 51
University of California, San Diego San Diego, United States 43 48
Iowa State University Ames, United States 44 101
The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, Hong Kong (SAR) 45 20
Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, United States 46 7
Peking University Beijing, China 47 41
London School of Economics and Political Science London, United Kingdom 48 38
Imperial College London London, United Kingdom 49 11
University of Florida Gainesville, United States 50 51
Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark 101 51
Aix-Marseille University Marseille, France 101 -
Boston University Boston, United States 101 51
Claude Bernard Lyon 1 Villeurbanne, France 101 -
Colorado State University Fort Collins, United States 101 -
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) Eindhoven, Netherlands 101 51
Florida State University Tallahassee, United States 101 -
Fudan University Shanghai, China 101 51
Heidelberg University Heidelberg, Germany 101 -
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Karlsruhe, Germany 101 -
Leiden University Leiden, Netherlands 101 101
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine London, United Kingdom 101 -
National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan 101 -
Northeast Normal University Changchun, China 101 -
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Trondheim, Norway 101 -
University Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier Toulouse, France 101 -
Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona, Spain 101 -
RWTH Aachen University Aachen, Germany 101 51
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China 101 51
Technical University of Munich München, Germany 101 -
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, Israel 101 -
George Washington University Washington, D. C., United States 101 -
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem, Israel 101 101
University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand 101 49
University of Queensland Saint Lucia, Australia 101 51
Tsinghua University Beijing, China 101 22
Institute for European Studies - Universite Libre de Bruxelles Brussels, Belgium 101 -
University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada 101 101
University of Bologna Bologna, Italy 101 -
University of California, Irvine (UCI) Irvine, United States 101 -
University of California, Riverside Riverside, United States 101 -
University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, United States 101 -
University of Florence Florence, Italy 101 151
University of Geneva Genève, Switzerland 101 -
University of Kent Canterbury, United Kingdom 101 -
University of Lisbon Lisbon, Portugal 101 101
University of Mannheim Mannheim, Germany 101 -
University of Maryland College Park, United States 101 51
University of Oslo Oslo, Norway 101 -
University of Paris Paris, France 101 -
University of Rochester Rochester, United States 101 -
University of Sydney Sydney, Australia 101 51
University of Virginia Charlottesville, United States 101 101
Vanderbilt University Nashville, United States 101 -
Virginia Tech Blacksburg, United States 101 51
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands 101 51
Wuhan University Wuhan, China 101 -
Xiamen University Xiamen, China 101 -
Zhejiang University Hangzhou, China 101 101
Arizona State University Tempe, United States 151 51
Beijing Normal University Beijing, China 151 151
Bielefeld University Bielefeld, Germany 151 -
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Madrid, Spain 151 101
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Villa Presidente Frei, Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile, Chile 151 101
City, University of London London, United Kingdom 151 151
City University of Hong Kong Kowloon, Hong Kong (SAR) 151 51
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) Delft, Netherlands 151 -
École Polytechnique Palaiseau, France 151 -
Hasselt University Hasselt, Belgium 151 -
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis Indianapolis, United States 151 -
Karolinska Institute Stockholm, Sweden 151 -
King Abdulaziz University Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 151 -
KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden 151 51
Politecnico di Milano Milano, Italy 151 -
Renmin University of China Beijing, China 151 151
Rice University Houston, United States 151 -
Soochow University Taipei, Taiwan 151 -
Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou, China 151 -
TU Dortmund University Dortmund, Germany 151 -
The University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, United Kingdom 151 51
University of Glasgow Glasgow, United Kingdom 151 101
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Houston, United States 151 -
Tilburg University Tilburg, Netherlands 151 101
Université Grenoble Alpes Grenoble, France 151 -
The University of Arizona Tucson, United States 151 -
University of Bern Bern, Switzerland 151 -
University of Bonn Bonn, Germany 151 -
University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, United States 151 -
University of Granada Granada, Spain 151 -
University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands 151 101
University of Haifa Haifa, Israel 151 -
University of Kentucky Lexington, United States 151 -
University of Lausanne Lausanne, Switzerland 151 -
University of Miami Coral Gables, United States 151 -
University of Milano - Bicocca Sesto San Giovanni, Italy 151 -
University of Montpellier Montpellier, France 151 -
University of Nottingham Nottingham, United Kingdom 151 51
University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, China 151 -
University of St Andrews St Andrews, United Kingdom 151 -
University of Technology Sydney Sydney, Australia 151 151
University of Tennessee Knoxville Knoxville, United States 151 151
The University of Toulouse Toulouse, France 151 -
University of Turin Turin, Italy 151 -
Ulm University Ulm, Germany 151 -
University of Vienna Vienna, Austria 151 51
Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden 151 101
Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel 151 -
York University Toronto, Canada 151 151
Humboldt University Berlin Berlin, Germany 51 51
Lancaster University Lancaster, United Kingdom 51 51
McMaster University Hamilton, Canada 51 101
New York University New York City, United States 51 40
Northwestern University Evanston, United States 51 50
Sapienza University of Rome Roma, Italy 51 101
Seoul National University Anyang, South Korea 51 44
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Shanghai, China 51 -
Australian National University Canberra, Australia 51 36
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, Hong Kong (SAR) 51 51
University of Georgia Athens, United States 51 101
The University of Manchester Manchester, United Kingdom 51 51
The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan 51 19
Ruhr University Bochum Bochum, Germany 51 -
University of Bristol Bristol, United Kingdom 51 51
University of Connecticut Storrs, United States 51 -
University of Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark 51 51
University of Göttingen Göttingen, Germany 51 101
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Urbana, United States 51 51
The University of Iowa Iowa City, United States 51 101
Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich München, Germany 51 51
University of Padua Padua, Italy 51 51
University of Southampton Southampton, United Kingdom 51 51
Paris Diderot University Paris, France 51 151
Brown University Providence, United States 76 101
East China Normal University Shanghai, China 76 -
Emory University Atlanta, United States 76 -
Erasmus University Rotterdam Rotterdam, Netherlands 76 51
Ghent University Ledeberg, Belgium 76 101
Hong Kong Baptist University Kowloon, Hong Kong (SAR) 76 151
McGill University Montréal, Canada 76 37
Michigan State University East Lansing, United States 76 51
Monash University Clayton, Australia 76 51
Nankai University Tianjin, China 76 151
Nanyang Technological University Singapore, Singapore 76 32
University Paris Dauphine Paris, France 76 51
Simon Fraser University Burnaby, Canada 76 151
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Lausanne, Switzerland 76 -
Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv Yaffo, Israel 76 151
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong, Hong Kong (SAR) 76 26
University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia 76 51
University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands 76 47
University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, United States 76 -
University of Missouri - Columbia Columbia, United States 76 -
University of Montreal Montréal, Canada 76 34
University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, United States 76 101
University of Sao Paulo São Paulo, Brazil 76 51
University of South Carolina Columbia, United States 76 -
University of Zurich Zürich, Switzerland 76 151
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong, Hong Kong (SAR) - 44
Autonomous University of Barcelona Barcelona, Spain - 101
Beihang University Beijing, China - 101
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Powai, India - 101
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi New Delhi, India - 101
Indiana University Bloomington Bloomington, United States - 101
Laval University Québec, Canada - 101
Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) Moscow, Russia - 101
Lund University Lund, Sweden - 101
Nanjing University Nanjing, China - 101
National Central University Taoyuan City, Taiwan - 101
National Cheng Kung University Tainan, Taiwan - 101
National Chiao Tung University Hsinchu, Taiwan - 101
Osaka University Osaka-shi, Japan - 101
Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia - 101
Stockholm University Stockholm, Sweden - 101
Sungkyunkwan University Seoul, South Korea - 101
UNICAMP - University of Campinas Campinas, Brazil - 101
Polytechnic University of Catalonia Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain - 101
University of Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom - 101
University of Calgary Calgary, Canada - 101
University of California, Irvine Extension Irvine, United States - 101
University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - 101
University of Strathclyde Glasgow, United Kingdom - 101
University of Western Ontario London, Canada - 101
Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an, China - 101
Yonsei University Seoul, South Korea - 101
Cardiff University Cardiff, United Kingdom - 151
Chalmers University of Technology Göteborg, Sweden - 151
Federal University of Minas Gerais Belo Horizonte, Brazil - 151
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, United Kingdom - 151
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Nawabganj, India - 151
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Khargapur, India - 151
Maastricht University Maastricht, Netherlands - 151
Massey University Palmerston North, New Zealand - 151
METU Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey - 151
National Chengchi University Taipei, Taiwan - 151
National Sun Yat Sen University Kaohsiung City, Taiwan - 151
Polytechnic University of Valencia Valencia, Spain - 151
RMIT University Melbourne, Australia - 151
Shanghai University Shanghai, China - 151
The University of Western Australia Perth, Australia - 151
Tohoku University Sendai-shi, Japan - 151
Complutense University of Madrid Madrid, Spain - 151
University Kebangsaan Malaysia Semenyih, Malaysia - 151
University Sains Malaysia George Town, Malaysia - 151
University College Dublin Dublin, Ireland - 151
University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, United States - 151
University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand - 151
University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland - 151
University of Leeds Leeds, United Kingdom - 151
University of Naples Federico II Naples, Italy - 151
University of Otago Dunedin, New Zealand - 151
University of Pisa Pisa, Italy - 151
University of Quebec Québec, Canada - 151
University of Seville Sevilla, Spain - 151
University of Sheffield Sheffield, United Kingdom - 151
University of Twente (UT) Enschede, Netherlands - 151
University of Valencia Valencia, Spain - 151
Utrecht University Utrecht, Netherlands - 151
Victoria University of Wellington Wellington, New Zealand - 151
Washington University in St. Louis Saint Louis, United States - 151
Bologna Business School Bologna, Italy - 51
Ecole normale supérieure (ENS) Paris, France - 51
Korea University Seoul, South Korea - 51
National Tsing Hua University Hsinchu, Taiwan - 51
Tokyo Institute of Technology Meguro, Japan - 51
TU Berlin Berlin, Germany - 51
UCLouvain Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium - 51
University of Barcelona Barcelona, Spain - 51
University of Minnesota Minneapolis, United States - 51
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