The study of statistics requires a strong base in mathematics and an ability to master the complex data analysis skills.

Most undergraduate courses in statistics cover a wide variety of subjects and are either three or four years long, with an additional year or two for postgraduation.

Top Colleges 
Rank College/University Website Country
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) www.mit.edu/ United States
2 Harvard University https://www.harvard.edu/ United States
3 Stanford University https://www.stanford.edu/ United States
4 ETH Zurich- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology https://www.ethz.ch/en.html Switzerland
5 University of Cambridge https://www.cam.ac.uk/ United Kingdom
6 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) https://www.berkeley.edu/ United States
7 University of Oxford www.ox.ac.uk/ United Kingdom
8 Georgia Institute of Technology https://www.gatech.edu/ United States
9 National University of Singapore (NUS) nus.edu.sg/ Singapore
10 Carnegie Mellon University https://www.cmu.edu/ United States

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