Master in Statistics : General

The Master in Statistics teaches students the difficult art of transforming data into information and helping decision-makers and researchers in other fields analyze this information most efficiently. The programme offers three tracks, with specific learning outcomes and objectives:

• Theoretical statistics

• Applied statistics

• Economics and statistics

• The track in theoretical statistics provides students with the methodological knowledge required to design new statistical procedures and pursue doctoral studies in probability or statistics;

• The track in applied statistics prepares students for a career in statistics (in experimental sciences, human sciences, or in the industry) or for doctoral studies in applied statistics;

• The track in economics and statistics offers first-class education in statistics, quantitative economics, and econometrics. This programme is unique in French-speaking Belgium and is taught in English, attracting foreign students from all around the world.

Most courses are offered as lecture classes. The small number of students in the programme, however, eliminates the usual drawbacks of this teaching method and makes interactivity possible.

Of course, the curriculum also involves courses with homework and reports.

Finally, computers play an important role in the programme, not only in courses dedicated to statistical software applications or computational statistics, but also in other courses where computers are used to illustrate theories and to put into practice the methods taught.

Statistics finds its origin both in mathematics and in applications, and is virtually present in all branches of human activity. This explains that statistics courses are found in the curricula of all faculties–hard sciences, human sciences, medicine, engineering. This diversity, which is expressed in the curriculum of the Master in Statistics, is one of the most attractive characteristics of careers in statistics.

The track in economics and statistics is organized in collaboration with ECARES (European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics – www.ecares.org). It offers first-class education in statistics, quantitative economics, and econometrics.