Overview

Key features

In this MSc Statistics program at University of Victoria, British Columbia, you’ll be exposed to upper-level thinking and research in the field of statistics. You’ll benefit from the department’s ties to organizations like Vancouver Island Health Authority. You can complete this degree with either a thesis or a non-thesis based project. Our department specializes in a wide range of areas, including bioinformatics, biostatistics and statistical ecology.

The department enjoys a strong international profile in both theoretical and applied statistics research. Current areas of specialization in statistics include bioinformatics, biostatistics, Bayesian statistics, capture-recapture models, empirical likelihood theory, industrial statistics, optimal design of experiments, robust statistics, small sample asymptotics, spatial statistics, and statistical ecology. The department has significant external collaborative ties with the Vancouver Island Health Authority, Victoria Hospice, BC Cancer Agency, as well as many on-campus collaborations.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

A Bayesian Approach to Response Optimization on Data with Multistratum Structure
PIMS Data Science Seminar: Data thinning to avoid double dipping
PIMS Data Science Seminar: Functional Nonlinear Learning
PIMS Data Science Seminar - Representation Learning in Large-scale, Heterogeneous
PIMS Data Science Seminar: Functional spherical autocorrelation: robust autocorrelation estimation of a functional time series

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Duration

Full-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-03 00:00:00

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Language

English

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Credits

60 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Victoria, Canada

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

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General requirements

Students admitted to a master’s program (MSc or MA) will normally have a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics or Statistics. A student without the necessary background may be considered for a pre-entry program as outlined in the section Upgrading for Admission to Graduate Studies or 1. Enhanced Program.
For a master’s program, students whose first language is not English must achieve a score on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) of at least 575 on the paper-based test or an overall score of 90 on the Internet Based test, with the following minimum section requirements: Listening 20; Speaking 20; Reading 20; Writing 20.

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Tuition Fees

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5602 CAD / year

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4442 CAD / year

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Living costs

Victoria

Canada

1490 - 2092 CAD / month

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