Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Statistics

Earn a Postgraduate credential and build skills for a career in applied statistics and quantitative analytics.

In this Postgraduate credential program, you will learn the statistical tools and concepts necessary to make data-driven decisions and advance your career in the fields of applied statistics and quantitative analytics. The program—which leverages expertise used by the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) to train the Indian Statistical Service officers—emphasizes the use of real-world data, including data from governments and international organizations that are available in the public domain. To begin with, you will gain the necessary background for collection, visualization, and analysis of these data for solving real problems. As you advance through the program, you will gain job-ready applied skills and develop experience with in-demand statistical data analysis tools in popular coding platforms like Python and R. You can also acquire skills needed to build, maintain, interpret and improve official databases useful for policy making.

What makes this diploma special?

Learn how to analyze, visualize, and present large data sets The programme is built around official data systems, and you’ll benefit from a 360-degree view into how these systems are built and used, and gain the diverse skills required to develop this understanding. In this programme, you’ll prepare for roles that handle data analytics and applied statistics. You will also learn scientific ways of collecting, managing, and analyzing data.

Start with fundamentals and then choose between two specialized tracks You will start with foundations of statistics, economics, and necessary computing skills leading to a choice between two concentrations of official statistics or data analytics depending on your interest.

Learn with real data from large government projects Work with open databases used in policy and decision-making in public and private sectors. Explore case studies as well as real-life data such as census data from the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.

Interact with and learn from globally recognised faculty

ISI functions under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI) of the Government of India. You will learn from the same faculty who teach the highly rigorous campus programs at ISI. You will also have the opportunity to learn from experts who handle large data sets to facilitate policy decisions. The regular and guest faculty members, in addition to their teaching and research activities, are also regularly engaged in the training of officers of the Indian Statistical Service.

Career Outcomes

In this programme, you’ll learn data analytics skills and develop your ability to distill information and clearly articulate your findings. You’ll also establish a solid foundation in applied statistics and learn the rigorous principles that guide statistical inference. ISI on-campus graduates consistently go on to succeed as data scientists, analysts, statisticians, software development engineers, researchers, policymakers, and more, and have taken roles with industry leaders such as Microsoft, Google, Dell, JP Morgan & Chase, KPMG, Amazon, Flipkart, Samsung, and others.