M.Sc Applied Statistics and Analytics at Nilkamal School of Mathematics, Applied Statistics and Analytics, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai Offline Course

Over the years, Statistics as a subject has shown an immense growth in almost every discipline of Science, Commerce, and Social Science. Recently, many new areas of Statistics are emerging and are showing their significant importance to the age of data analytics such as Big Data and Machine Learning. The classical statistical tools are being modified to form new techniques and methods to deal with the challenges coming from industries like Telecom, Entertainment, Insurance, Banking, Pharmaceutical etc.

By taking the immense need of understanding the data into consideration, the Department of Statistics, under the Sunandan Divatia School of Science, started BSc Applied Statistics and Analytics course in 2015. This course as designed to give the students an insight to applications of Statistics to various fields from the undergraduate level itself. It is very fortunate that this course has got tremendous response from the student fraternity.

Hence, there is a need to take this applied under graduate course to a higher level and introduce the students to more rigorous high performance data mining tools which can enhance their knowledge to apply the statistical techniques to the real world problems. With this objective, the NMIMS (Deemed to be University), under the Sunandan Divatia School of Science, which has always known to be a place to incorporate contemporary changes and flexible in improvising the courses, has introduced M.Sc. Applied Statistics and Analytics programme from academic year 2018-19. This is a more rigorous applied course which focusses on the application of Statistics to almost each and every discipline and is efficient to meet the demands of today’s world be it Big Data, Machine Learning, Data Mining or any other field.

Duration 

The rigorous applied course work is spread over 4 semesters, in which the 4 th semester is completely devoted to Industry internship.