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Statistics

CERTIFICATION AND TITLE OF THE PROGRAMME

The certificate to be awarded and the program title shall read:” NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN STATISTICS”.

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES:

The National Diploma program in statistics is aimed at producing assistant statisticians capable of collecting data, analyzing and making inference under supervision.

On the completion of this program, the diplomatic should be able to :

  • 1. Acquire a good knowledge of basic statistics and statistical methods.
  • 2. Understand the applications of statistics in commercial, industrial and scientific environment.
  • 3. Acquire a practical skill in data collection, analysis and research methods.

PROSPECTS

Statisticians are relatively scarce and the polytechnic serves as a training centre to raise them for onward service delivery to the nation. They work in Hospitals record departments, Banks, Industries, the Nigerian Bureau of statistics NBS and in the public sector of the Nigeria Economy upon the award of National Diploma.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Applicants with four credit ordinary level passes with English and Mathematics in WAEC, SSCE or GCE and NECO and have attempted UTME JAMB are eligible for admission.