In fact, it is not, statistics is not just a simple collection and organization of data, it is a science of mining the inherent quantitative regularity of data through analysis, is a study of how to interpret, analyze and apply the data of the methodology of science, is a blend of natural science and social science.
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Profile of the major
Chinese name: Statistics
Course duration: four years
Degree awarded: Bachelor of Science or Economics
Discipline: Science
Professional code: 071401
Statistics is a branch of applied mathematics, which mainly collects and analyzes data through the use of probability theory to establish mathematical models, collect data from the observed system, conduct quantitative analysis, summarize, make inferences and predictions, and provide the basis and reference for relevant decision-making.
It is widely used in various disciplines, from the physical and social sciences to the humanities, and is even used in business and government decision-making. As the process of digitalization continues to accelerate, people increasingly want to be able to summarize some of the empirical rules from a large amount of data to provide a basis for the subsequent decision-making.
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Disciplinary Skills
This major includes two types of specialties, general statistics and economic statistics, and cultivates students with good mathematical or mathematical and economic literacy, mastering the basic theories and methods of statistics, and proficiently applying computers to analyze data.
Can be engaged in the development, application and management of statistical survey, statistical information management, quantitative analysis in enterprises, institutions and economic and management departments, or in scientific research, education departments engaged in research and teaching of senior specialists.
Qualifications
1. Graduation-related certificates
Certificates involved: CET transcripts, graduation certificates, and degree certificates.
This is a certificate that must be obtained during the school period, in addition to the computer grade during the school period can also be examined, Putonghua grade certificate.
2, professional qualifications
Involving certificates: statistical qualification certificate, statistical qualification examination is under the leadership of the National Bureau of Statistics, the provincial people's government statistical agencies to organize and implement by the people's government of the county (or municipal) level statistical agencies to specifically undertake. The examination is held publicly on the third Sunday in September each year, and the examination answer time for each subject is 120 minutes.
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Employment Direction
1, Teacher or Researcher
Professionals engaged in teaching and researching statistics in all kinds of higher education institutions and research institutes. The reality is that the demand for talents engaged in statistical research is small, if you want to engage in this industry, you must have the determination and perseverance to go to graduate school and study for a doctorate.
2, government departments (statistical offices, etc.)
Professionals engaged in statistical work in various enterprises and institutions.
3, banks, insurance companies, securities companies and other financial sectors, market research firms, consulting firms, market research departments of various companies, etc.
Engaged in the development, application and management of statistical surveys, statistical information management, quantitative analysis, etc.
Statistical survey, statistical information management, quantitative analysis and other development, application and management work.
Statistical work is an important prerequisite for the performance appraisal of enterprises and institutions, and has a very wide range of applications in the socio-economic field, so the statistical personnel market needs to be maintained in the long term in a relatively stable growth trend.
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Employment status:
Cross-cutting fields produce disciplines that are basically better for future development prospects, and also a field that is easy to produce talents. In fact, compared to China, some Western countries pay more attention to statistics as a profession as well as big data analysis, and China in recent years has also paid more and more attention to data analysis, especially in this Internet era, enterprises, and the government have begun to pay attention to it.
Basically all industries need data analysis talents, although the current treatment of graduates of this profession is not as good as that of financial and economic majors, but its prospects are good.
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Into the profession
The senior said:
Most statistics undergraduates in China don't have enough content to let statistics undergraduates do content related to the profession (such as modeling), and most of them look for descriptive statistics jobs, such as drawing charts and looking at trends.
So it's not that you can't get a job with a statistics undergrad, it's that you can't get a job that's particularly relevant, and it's almost impossible to apply what you've learned. (But if you want to do descriptive statistics it's great, it fits your requirements.) So if you really want to do a job more closely related to your major, you should be prepared to do a master's degree or a PhD.
Also, big data is relatively hot in the past two years, which is very close to statistics, and is one of the ideal destinations for statistics graduates. But at this stage the domestic statistics undergraduate can not do related work, want to engage in data mining work need to maximize personal programming skills, learning python, R, Spark, etc..
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Institutions recommended
From the fourth Ministry of Education disciplinary assessment, you can clearly see the ranking of statistics majors.
Fujian Province, the list includes:
Xiamen University (A)
Fujian Normal University (C+)
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (C-)
Fujian Nonglin University (C-)
Fujian Nonglin University (C-).