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Statistics is an ancient field of human knowledge that originated with the state, where it was necessary to account for the population, funds, consumed products, the army and much more. Today, statistics cover all spheres of human activity.
Statistics is not only a science, a statistical methodology, but also an applied industry, which is divided into many others:
- Anthropometrics
- Biometrics
- Demography
- Psychometrics
- Sociometrics
- Econometrics, etc.
- Descriptive statistics is an applied industry that collects, presents and describes data. Official statistics are an example of descriptive statistics.
- Analytical statistics – processing of a large amount of statistical data, study of the results obtained. These are the activities of scientists, statistical institutes and organizations.
Examples of specialization:
- State statistics
- History of statistics
- Sports statistics
- International trade statistics
- Tourism statistics
- Legal statistics.
- The study of operations is a discipline close to statistics, it is also based on the application of mathematical methods and techniques, on application in various fields of human activity:
- Mathematical modeling
- Statistical modeling
- Heuristic approaches.
- Operations research as a science is engaged in the development, search for ways and models of optimal solutions, using mathematical and heuristic methods.
Examples of specialization:
- Operations Studies
- Operations and Actuarial Studies
- Release operations
- Project management and operations research.
To choose a specialization and university will help the current ranking "The best universities with the study of statistics and operations research in Europe".
Best Statistics & Operational Research universities in Europe 2026 - QS World University rankings
| 1 | University of Cambridge |
| 2 | ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology |
| 3 | University of Oxford |
| 4 | Imperial College London |
| 5 | The University of Warwick |
| 6 | Institut Polytechnique de Paris |
| 7 | Technical University of Munich |
| 8 | Sorbonne University |
| 9 | Université PSL |
| 10 | Université Paris-Saclay |
| 11 | UCL |
| 12 | Delft University of Technology |
| 13 | The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) |
| 14 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 15 | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| 16 | The University of Manchester |
| 17 | University of Southampton |
| 18 | KU Leuven |
| 19 | Eindhoven University of Technology |
| 20 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| 21 | Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna |
| 22 | KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| 23 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| 24 | Lancaster University |
| 25 | Ludwig Maximilian Universität München |
| 26 | Sapienza University of Rome |
| 27 | Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) |
| 28 | University of Amsterdam |
| 29 | University of Bristol |
| 30 | University of Copenhagen |
| 31 | University of Vienna |
| 32 | University of Zurich |
| 33 | Bocconi University |
| 34 | Università di Padova |
| 35 | Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) |
| 36 | Aarhus University |
| 37 | Chalmers University of Technology |
| 38 | HSE University |
| 39 | IMT Atlantique |
| 40 | Lomonosov Moscow State University |
| 41 | Lund University |
| 42 | RWTH Aachen University |
| 43 | Tilburg University |
| 44 | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) |
| 45 | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya |
| 46 | Universite libre de Bruxelles |
| 47 | University of Bath |
| 48 | University of Groningen |
| 49 | University of Göttingen |
| 50 | University of Leeds |
