Undergraduate

Statistical Data Science

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Overview

Entry requirements

Careers opportunities

A degree with more demand than supply, and one of the few where graduates are actively recruited by government, pharmaceuticals and finance at once. Software fluency in R, Python or SAS is assumed.

Roles graduates go into

  • Statistician
  • Data scientist
  • Biostatistician
  • Operational research analyst
  • Risk and pricing analyst
  • Survey methodologist

Where they work

  • Government analytical services and the ONS
  • Pharmaceutical companies and CROs
  • Banks, insurers and asset managers
  • Market research and polling
  • Universities and research institutes
After the course

Chartered Statistician status with the Royal Statistical Society, taken after several years of practice.

Fees and funding

Where you will study

Heriot-Watt University

We work with 3 other universities in Edinburgh, so settling on the place still leaves a choice inside it.

The region
Scotland
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4 this one among them
Courses there, all told
515 across every university we list in it
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