Statistics
About Statistics
Statisticians work in almost all areas of science, engineering, business, government and industry. At UBC, the program emphasizes the role of statistics within problem solving, and helps you develop an understanding of the concepts of observation, hypothesis, evidence and validation. You'll learn more about critical statistical reasoning, with emphasis on the developing computational, mathematical and communication skills.
Program Details
Tailor your program to your interests with electives in computer science, economics, life sciences, commerce or the social sciences. UBC's statistics honours program is a good fit if you're interested in pursuing graduate work in the mathematical sciences or another field. You'll study in UBC's modern Earth Sciences Building, housing computer lab facilities, seminar rooms, lecture halls, and the Statistics Learning Centre.
Skills
- Organization of data to facilitate interpretation and application
- Complex pattern recognition
- Data preparation (validation) and processing (modeling)
- Probabilistic reasoning
- Survey and experimental design
- Statistical and data analysis
- Logical and critical reasoning
- Numerical computation
- Technical skills in statistical concepts, logic, and specialized software (SQL, R)
Programs offered
- Major or Honours, Statistics
- Combined, Major Statistics and Economics
- Combined Major or Combined Honours, Computer Science and Statistics
- Combined Honours Mathematics and Statistics
- Co-op
Resources
Career Options
With an undergraduate degree
- Algorithm designer
- Big data analyst
- Computer programmer
- Data/Information scientist
- Data mining analyst
- Demographer
- Insurance underwriter
- Marketing consultant
- Market researcher
- Operations researcher
- Quantitative analyst
- Sports statistician
- Statistical analyst
- Statistical consultant
- Statistician
- Systems/Research analyst
- Systems auditor
- Technical analyst - statistics
With additional study
- Actuary
- Bioinformatics scientist
- Biostatistician
- Chartered financial analyst
- Consulting actuary
- Cryptanalyst
- Economist
- Epidemiologist
- Insurance actuary
- Investment manager
- Mathematician
- Software engineer
- Statistical engineer
- Teacher/Professor
UBC Science Statistics Graduates Work As
- PhD Student in Economics, Stanford University
- Institutional Portfolio Risk Analyst, RBC Global Asset Management
- Statistical Analyst, BC Cancer Agency
- Research Assistant, Centre for Health Evaluation & Outcome Sciences
- Data Scientist, Environment Canada