10 potential career options with a degree in statistics

Discover the most common carer options available with a degree in statistics, with a description of each role and the required skills to pursue these jobs

Antoine Soetewey
13 min readMar 24, 2023
10 potential career options with a degree in statistics
Photo by Saulo Mohana on Unsplash

This post has been written in collaboration with Daniel Williams.

Introduction

A reader recently contacted me because he was hesitating between starting his studies in statistics or economics. I studied economics and I am now doing a PhD in statistics, so he reached out to me to know what I thought about these two fields, and in particular, what were my feelings about the career opportunities available with these two degrees.

Before considering pursuing a graduate degree, it is important to have a clear understanding of the skills you will develop and the career opportunities that will become available to you.

I leave it to those who have studied economics and work in this field to discuss career opportunities with a degree in economics. In this post, I will focus on the career options that are available for people with a degree in statistics.

Bear in mind that there are many professional opportunities with a degree in statics. Indeed, statistical expertise is…

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Antoine Soetewey

Doctoral researcher in statistics at UCLouvain. Interested in statistics, R, and making them accessible to everyone. Author of statsandr.com.