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Prospective Postgraduates

MSc

The application window for the MSc with entry in September 2012 closed on 15 March 2012. The opening date for the consideration of applications for entry in September 2013 will be 1 October 2012.

The demand for numerate graduates exceeds the supply in most areas, as a glance at the professional job advertisement pages will reveal. Many new and exciting opportunities - in industry, medicine, government, commerce or research - await a science graduate who has rounded off their first degree with additional training in quantitative skills, such as those provided by taught postgraduate courses within the Statistical Science Department.

At graduate level, one taught programme is available within the department: 

Students can choose to specialise in several different areas within our broader MSc programme and one of these has been formalised as a separate award:

The MSc lasts for a full year, including a summer project, and provides an introduction to modern ideas in statistics as well as a grounding in a selection of traditional statistical methods for students with first degrees in a variety of quantitative disciplines.

This programme may be taken part-time, and units may be accessible to affiliate students. Click here for the programme specifications.

MPhil/PhD

The department welcomes applications from prospective research students, both from the UK and from overseas. Supervision leading to an MPhil or PhD degree is available on a wide range of topics in statistics and probability, both theoretical and applied. The following links provide more information.

Just as the backgrounds of research students can vary widely, so can their programmes. However, a typical pattern of progression is that new research students spend part of their first year studying some of the core courses of the MSc programme described above; in particular, all new research students are encouraged to attend the Communication Workshop course. It normally takes two further years of full-time work to complete a PhD; an MPhil might be achievable in less. In addition to pursuing their own research, students are expected to attend (and later present their work at) seminars and meetings both inside and outside the department.

Useful links

Details on potential scholarship funding may be on UCL Entrance Scholarship (ES) pages as well as within these pages.

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