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Biostatistics is the science of analyzing and interpreting biomedical data. Scientific challenges from clinical and biological research require the development and competent application of novel statistical methodology. Currently such challenges emerge, for example, in personalized and evidence-based medicine, in infectious disease and environmental epidemiology, and in the rapidly expanding fields of molecular biology, e.g. genomics, proteomics, epigenomics. It is the only – to date- specialized program for the training of biostatisticians in Switzerland.
A Master in Biostatistics gives you strong career prospects. Generally speaking, the demand for statisticians and other professional with quantitaitve skills is high. Our graduates are qualified to pursue highly specialized careers, for example in the academia or in the pharmaceutical industry. Moreover, financial institutions, insurance and marketing companies, other corporations with research and development departments as well as consulting firms regularly seek to hire (bio)statisticians.
Biostatistics (specialized Master) Major 90 |
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| ECTS-Credits | 90 |
| Program | Master of Science Faculty of Science (120) (2021) |
| Major-/Minor combinations | The specialized Master's study program in Biostatistics 90 can be taken as single major or be combined with a minor study program 30 at Master's leve A major study program in Biostatistics can not be combined with a minor study program in Applied Probability and Statistics. Show Minor programs |
| Requirements | The Master in Biostatistics is a spezialized Master. |
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| Provided by | Faculty of Science |
