Royal Statistical Society Membership

The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is a world-leading organisation promoting the importance of statistics and data – and a professional body for all statisticians and data analysts.

All full-time and part-time students are eligible for e-student membership. The benefits include: 

• Increased statistical knowledge and enhanced CV
• Opportunity to be involved in UK-wide statistical events
• Access to Significance magazine online.

Most of our degree programmes are accredited by the RSS. This means that on completion of their degree, students are eligible for the award of Graduate Statistician (GradStat) status. This provides formal recognition of a member’s statistical qualifications.

The following programmes are accredited by the RSS and some have conditions which are highlighted below. Where there are no conditions specified, students are eligible for the accreditation on graduation from their programme. 

• MSc Data Science
   

  Applicants must have completed and passed two of these modules: ST405, ST411, ST422, ST436.

• MSc Statistics and MSc Statistics (Research); MSc Statistics (Social Statistics) and MSc Statistics (Social Statistics) (Research)
• MSc Statistics (Financial Statistics) and MSc Financial Statistics (Research)
  
  

  Applicants must have completed and passed two of these modules: ST405, ST411 ST416, ST422, ST443, ST444, MY456.

• BSc Actuarial Science
• BSc Mathematics, Statistics and Business