Medical Statistics (Taught)

There’s a vast amount of healthcare data in the world. And growing demand for medical statisticians who can analyse it to solve the biggest challenges in medicine.

Study MSc Medical Statistics to combine your passion for healthcare with your analytical mindset. Help to advance medical knowledge, prevent diseases, improve treatments, and influence government health policies. From designing clinical studies to identifying the causes of diseases, you’ll develop the specialist skills you need to play a vital role in global health and development.

What you will learn:

• Discover how to select appropriate clinical study designs and apply statistical techniques to analyse health data

• Learn to apply the theory and practice of statistics to clinical trials, epidemiology, and public health

• Gain knowledge of different areas of medical statistics and delve into questions of causality

• Answer medical questions and communicate your analysis to clinicians, scientists, patients and other statisticians

• Identify and explore your personal interests, ready to hit the ground running once you graduate.

Please note: applications for the 2026/27 academic year are expected to open in November 2025. This information relates to 2025/26 academic year and will be updated in due course.