MSc Medical Statistics at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

The MSc Medical Statistics (biostatistics) applies statistical theory and practice to clinical trials, epidemiology and public health, with small classes led by senior faculty and lectures followed by practical sessions using Stata, R and Stan. The course is certified by the Royal Statistical Society and concludes with an independent analysis project using real-world data.

Duration: 1 year full-time; 2 years part-time or split-study  |  Study mode: full-time; part-time; split-study (in-person, London)  |  Intake: September 2026  |  Location: London, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Term 1 compulsory modules are Concepts and Methods in Epidemiology, Clinical Trials, Foundations of Medical Statistics and Introduction to Statistical Computing. Terms 2 and 3 include compulsory Statistical Models for Discrete Outcomes, Survival Analysis and Bayesian Analysis, plus Analysis of Hierarchical and Other Dependent Data and options such as Advanced Statistical Methods in Epidemiology or Causal Inference and Missing Data, followed by a summer data-analysis or methodological project.

Career pathways

Graduates work as medical statisticians, biostatisticians, clinical programmers and quantitative epidemiologists in academia, the pharmaceutical industry, contract research organisations, clinical trial units and national health services, at employers such as GSK, Novartis and the Medical Research Council.

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