Applied Statistics and Financial Modelling

• Accredited by the Royal Statistical Society - graduates are normally granted Graduate Statistician (GradStat) status.
• We bring together research and teaching across economics and finance, mathematics and statistics in a single department, which creates significant interdisciplinary synergies.
• Our teaching is informed by the needs of employers and you will be taught by academics who are professional practitioners involved in the world of economics and international finance. They provide specialist advice and in-house training for government departments, City firms and banks.
• We have active research groups in mathematics, econometrics and statistics, macroeconomics and microeconomics, which all host visiting speakers and organise seminars.
• The Birkbeck Centre for Applied Macroeconomics and the Commodities and Finance Centre are our two research centres, which disseminate research, host events and house visiting academics.
• You will have access to a wide range of study resources, including University of London seminar programmes in probability and statistics, and excellent library facilities close by in Bloomsbury. Extensive computing facilities include PCs and UNIX platforms.

Graduates can pursue career paths in data collection, research, and analysis, modelling and forecasting. Possible professions include:

• statistician
• operational researcher
• research scientist (maths)
• forensic statistician
• higher education lecturer.

Further information about careers in statistics is available from the Royal Statistical Society.

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