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Statistics study at India's premier institution- 20-Feb-2014
Established in 1931, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) is an academic institute of national importance recognised by the 1959 act of Indian parliament.
ISI has its headquarters in Baranagar, a suburb of Kolkata, West Bengal with four subsidiary centres focused in academics at Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Tezpur, and a branch at Giridih.
In addition, the Institute has a network of units of Statistical Quality Control and Operations Research at Vadodara, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune engaged.
Primary activities of ISI are research and training of Statistics, development of theoretical Statistics and its applications in various natural and social sciences.
Key areas of expertise of ISI are Statistics, Mathematics, Computer science, quantitative Economics, Operations Research and Information Science and it is one of the few research oriented Indian schools offering courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
ISI offers two undergraduate programs - Bachelor of Statistics (Honours) and Bachelor of Mathematics (Honours), six post graduate programs - Master of Statistics, Master of Mathematics, Master of Science in Quantitative Economics, Master of Science in Library and Information Science, Master of Technology in Computer Science and Master of Technology in Quality, Reliability and Operations Research, and research fellowships towards obtaining a PhD degree.
Undergraduate courses are of 3 years duration, whereas the graduate level courses of 2 years of duration.
For all undergraduate and post graduate level courses, the academic year is divided in two semesters.
Except for sponsored candidates of MTech courses, ISI students are not required to pay any tuition fees. In accordance to a conditional performance beyond a threshold, all students and research fellows receive stipends, fellowships and contingency/book grants.
ISI campuses provide hostel accommodations with recreational facilities and limited medical facilities available free of cost.
Applicants of all degree courses are required to go through written admission tests and interviews. ISI conducts the written test for applicants of MTech Computer Science course having a GATE score above a certain limit. Candidates for research fellowship programmes having already qualified for a fellowship from CSIR or NBHM, can directly appear in an interview.
