Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science Information Session

ACTUARIAL SCIENCE MMath Actuarial Science – a research degree which provides training for a career as a professional actuary or for the PhD program PhD Actuarial Science - PhD graduates typically enter academia or work in the private sector. Current research areas include risk theory, stochastic modelling, finance, and Monte Carlo methods.

STATISTICS MMath Statistics (Research Paper/Thesis) - a research based Masters program designed to prepare students for employment as statisticians or data scientists or for PhD entry MMath Biostatistics (Research Paper/Thesis)- development and application of statistical methods to problems arising in health, biology, and the environment PhD Statistics and Biostatistics – areas of research: biostatistics, business and industrial statistics, statistical inference, survey sampling, linear models, exploratory data analysis, statistical machine learning, survival analysis, non-parametric methods, statistical geometry, time series, stochastic processes, and statistical computing.

MMath Statistics – Data Science Specialization MMath Statistics – Data Science Specialization is a course-based, one-year, Masters program, designed to prepare students to work in the data science area. There are two parallel Data Science programs in Statistics and Computer Science which are seamlessly integrated with each another and provide breadth and depth in both areas. The program in SAS is designed for students who already have strong background in statistics.

Professional Masters Master of Quantitative Finance (MQF) - provides the analytical tools to solve practical problems in the complex and rapidly evolving world of today's financial industry. Master of Actuarial Science (MACTSC)- provides training for a career as a professional actuary or for the PhD entry