01.03.05 Statistics

Under the program, highly qualified personnel are trained to obtain modern skills in collecting and processing significant bulks of information and data sets, develop methods of economic analysis, technologies for forecasting the development of economic situations that are to provide analytical support to managerial decisions made at the micro and macro levels and aimed to increase business efficiency. Students get knowledge in the field of economics, management, law, statistics, information systems and information and communication technologies, learn to evaluate a business, its development strategy, conduct financial and managerial analysis.

Level of education:

Bachelor degree

Form of training:

Full-time (daytime)

Venue of training:

Moscow

Entrance exams:

— Mathematics (major)
— Russian language
— Information science and ICT

Programs, specializations:

Business analysis

In this area of instruction, students will acquire fundamental knowledge in economics, mathematics, statistics and computer technologies. Graduates of the program are engaged in gathering and processing statistical information, including official data on social, political, economic, demographic, and environmental phenomena. The greater part of work is data analysis (statistical and mathematical), modeling of socio-economic phenomena and processes, the assessment of the status and development prospects of specific objects. Upon graduation, they will become singular specialists/analysts with deep theoretical knowledge and practical skills of statistical and mathematical analysis, capable of modeling of socio-economic phenomena and processes and assessing the current state and development prospects of specific entities and trends, with proper account taken of relevant economic tendencies.

Alumni can be employed as

analyst
financial analyst
business analyst
economist
stock market analysts
statistician
market researcher/statistician
risk managers

Program subjects

Information technology in statistics
Statistical forecasting techniques
Statistical risk analysis
Information technology in statistics
Econometrics
Statistical analysis of financial markets
Neural networks
Panel data analysis methods
Statistical analysis of big data
Monitoring of national economic security

Graduating Department:
Department of Statistics