Students graduate with the specialist modelling and analysis skills employers need to interpret the complex datasets that underpin many 21st century professions – from business, manufacturing and marketing to policymaking, science and healthcare.

If you get a second-class degree or better, you automatically qualify for the Royal Statistical Society Graduate Statistician award – a stepping stone to full professional membership of the RSS and Chartered Statistician status.

• Post Study Work Permit of 2 years

We ask for a 2:1 honours degree, or equivalent, with substantial mathematical and statistical components. In particular, you should have studied the following topics and performed well in assessments on them (for example, a score of at least 60 per cent).

• Mathematical Methods for Statistics: ideas and techniques from real analysis and linear algebra, including multiple integration, differentiation, matrix algebra, the theory of quadratic forms.
• Probability and Probability Distributions: the laws of probability and of conditional probability, the concepts of random variables and random vectors and their distributions, the methodology for calculating with them; laws of large numbers and central limit phenomena.
• Basic Statistics: statistical inference, rational decision-making under uncertainty, and how they may be applied in a wide range of practical circumstances; relevant software, for example, R.