What is the best way to set up clinical trials for new medical treatments? How can we estimate the number of illegal immigrants in the Netherlands? Questions like these are central to this programme.

In today’s data-driven society, we monitor and measure everything but it's a big challenge to find the best way to design research and analyse data to extract the most valuable information and communicate results effectively.
Would you like to advance the frontiers of statistics through research? Do you want to apply statistical knowledge and computing to solve problems across a wide range of fields? Do you like teaming up with professionals from other disciplines to achieve the best findings from the available data? Then this Research Master’s is for you!

This two-year programme provides comprehensive training through a unique combination of the three participating departments specializing in diverse research areas within behavioural, biomedical and social sciences. All three offer an inspiring learning environment focusing on real-world application and resulting in an exceptionally broad choice of traineeship opportunities and thesis topics. Your career prospects will be excellent.

This Master’s allows you to experience the research culture at two universities, Utrecht and Twente. Live-video conference techniques will be used that support online live-communication teaching.