• Dalhousie University offers a Master of Science in Statistics with a duration of 2 years.
  • It is an on-campus course program offered on a full-time basis.
  • Major components of the statistics program are:
    • Statistical Inference and Robust Statistics
    • Data Mining and Bioinformatics
    • Linear and Nonlinear Regression
    • Time series analysis and Statistical genetics
    • Environmental Statistics and Information Theory.
  • University provides students with real-world experience in research projects.
  • Students have to complete a thesis, and an oral presentation of the work must be given in a seminar.
  • University provides statistics programs with research opportunities and to gain practical, hands-on co-op work experience.
  • The student-faculty ratio in the MSc Statistics program is 14:1.
  • Students may also apply for a Ph.D. which is of 3-4 years duration after completing this program.
  • The department provides different computing facilities such as the network of sun servers, workstations, a Unix cluster, and PCs.
  • It also provides standard statistical and mathematical software such as Splus, SAS, BMDP, Minitab, NAG, IMSL, Matlab, and Maple which help the students to increase their learning skills.
  • The Faculty of Science Department professors conducted more than $26 million in research last year.
  • Placements/Job opportunities after MSc Statistics are Statisticians, Business Analysts, Mathematicians, etc.
  • The average salary goes up to 63,750 USD after completing this program.