Sunway Bachelor of Industrial Statistics

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In today’s statistical world, statisticians are in high demand to analyze and understand huge amounts of data. Graduates with statistical knowledge are in high demand across a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, logistics, and transportation, healthcare, business, and government, because their sophisticated knowledge can be applied to assess effectiveness and control quality, optimize resources, monitor and predict trends, and much more.

Sunway Bachelor of Industrial Statistics emphasizes the need of credible, dependable, and responsible data analysis in discovering trends and extracting hidden information. Students learn to objectively do descriptive analytics, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics for better choices using sound, trusted, and scientifically validated mathematical and statistical techniques. This program provides students with fundamental, advanced, and specialized mathematics and statistics knowledge, which is essential for developing a dynamic, popular, and talented workforce in practically every industry.
This program allows students to take on a range of occupations, including:

• Data Scientist career path
• Pathway to Actuarial Analytics
• Professional Quality Pathway
• The academic route

Intakes	January, April, September
Duration	3 Years (full-time)

Program Structure

Sunway Bachelor of Industrial Statistics is a three years program and its curriculum is as following.

 First year

• Calculus
• Advanced Calculus
• Elementary Statistics
• English for Mathematical Sciences
• Fundamentals of Big Data and Knowledge Discovery
• Introduction to Operations Research
• Introduction to Probability
• Linear Algebra & Applications
• Programming Principles

 Second year

• Communication Skills
• Community Project
• Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods
• Design of Experiments
• Mathematical Methods
• Mathematical Statistics I
• Mathematical Statistics II
• Quality Control and Survey Sampling
• Regression Analysis
• Stochastic Processes

Third year

• Big Data Technologies
• Internship
• Machine Learning Techniques for Data Mining
• Multivariate Analysis
• Social and Professional Responsibilities
• Time Series & Forecasting

Elective Courses ( Choose any 4 in Year 3)

• Advanced Data Analytics
• Analysis of Panel Data
• Applied Nonparametric Statistics
• Bayesian Forecasting
• Categorical Data Analysis
• Regression Analysis for Spatial Data
• Risk Theory
• Simulation and Credibility Theory
• Survival Analysis
• Survival Model

 MOHE Compulsory General Subjects

Local Student

• Appreciation of Ethics and Civilization
• Philosophy and Current Issues
• Bahasa Kebangsaan A (applicable to students who did not sit for SPM or did not obtain a Credit in SPM Bahasa Malaya)

International Student

• Malay Language for Communication 2
• Appreciation of Ethics and Civilization

Entry Requirements

STPM	Average C+ or CGPA 2.33 (Minimum 2 principals)
A-Level	Minimum 12 points
Australian Matriculation	ATAR 60
Canadian Matriculation	60%
MUFY	60%
Sunway Foundation in Arts	CGPA 2.0
Sunway Foundation in Science Technology	CGPA 2.0
Unified Examination Certificate	Maximum 26 points from 5 subjects
International Baccalaureate	Completed with minimum 25 points (excluding bonus points)
Sunway Diploma	CAVG 50% or CGPA 2.0

General Requirements

• Credit in Mathematics at SPM or equivalent
• Any other equivalent qualifications. Applicant with no standard qualification will be considered on a case-to-case basis.

English Requirements

• IELTS or equivalent 6.0
• MUET Band 4
• SPM English B3 or B+
• UEC English B4
• O-Level English (1119) Credit
• ESL/English Satisfactory level in Pre-University programs, where the medium of instruction is English

Career Options

• Chief statistician
• Statistical data analyst
• Statistical project consultant
• Risk data analyst
• Data scientist
• Statistical quality control engineer
• Biostatistician
• Data analytics expert
• Healthcare statistician
• Quantitative analyst
• Researcher