• The University of Saskatchewan offers a Ph.D. in Biostatistics with a duration of 4 years.
  • This course is offered on a full-time and part-time basis also. This program is provided both on-campus and off-campus.
  • In this program, through classroom participation, laboratory sessions, biostatistical consulting, and research, students will have the opportunity to explore developments in theoretical statistics and the application of the theory in the life sciences.
  • Biostatistics is the study of statistical techniques applied to medical, biological, and agricultural data.
  • The program provides students with opportunities to study and conduct research in such areas as:
    • Design and analysis of clinical trials
    • Longitudinal data analysis
    • Analysis of complex survey data
    • Measurement error
    • Survival analysis
    • Computational statistics
    • Multivariate statistics
  • There are a limited number of scholarships available to students in this program.
  • The faculty and student ratio for this program are 1:17.