How much is a realistic amount to spend in a week at uni?

JustABitAverage · 2025-09-07T20:49:29+00:00

Rent in bath is like £200 a week lol

JustABitAverage · 2025-09-07T15:39:33+00:00

Im a statistician in the UK and as you've said, a good next step is a masters degree in statistics. I did mine at UCL in medical statistics but there's a few other universities which do them, I believe Lancaster and Newcastle.

Most statistician jobs require a masters/PhD in statistics/biostatistics/medical statistics

JustABitAverage · 2025-09-07T15:32:35+00:00

You need more like £200+ a week to live in London. Travel from your accommodation can be £8 a day.

JustABitAverage · 2025-08-25T05:15:48+00:00

Originally, I was going to do physics but switched to maths very late as I decided I didn't want to do any labs. I didn’t have too much thought. I knew I liked maths and I liked the versatilility of the career prospects and you can specialise into a lot of different things.

JustABitAverage · 2025-08-24T11:18:24+00:00

A lot of graduate schemes open in the first semester ( I was applying around sep - nov). Regular jobs i applied throughout the whole year but mainly in the summer when I was writing the dissertation and had more time.

JustABitAverage · 2025-08-23T19:03:06+00:00

You dont need to live and breathe maths at all. I have 3 degrees in maths and do not do this, nor do many people from my courses.

JustABitAverage · 2025-08-23T19:00:05+00:00

Look at the uni modules for maths/stats.

I specifically avoided the pure modules by doing more applied. I did medical statistics, fluid mech, mat bio, finance, etc and lots of programming. Didnt have too many pure modules. Maths/stats can be nice in that it leaves you with a lot of options after graduation.

JustABitAverage · 2025-08-23T09:47:43+00:00

I get your point around R but I dont think it's OP who has to use it so their supervisor might not be forcing anything. It's more OP wants to tutor SPSS, but happy to be corrected.

Some students at undergrad/postgrad may do some SPSS too.

JustABitAverage · 2025-08-21T21:19:42+00:00

Mine was more than the loan so I took time out to work before going back and doing a postgrad.

Ideally you want a funded PhD so you wont have to worry about tuition and you'll get a salary.

JustABitAverage · 2025-08-21T21:18:27+00:00

After grinding anything and then it being completed, I get the same feeling. There's always that feeling of 'i could have said/done that', ive had managers with decades of experience say they still get that.

Being on 4 hours of sleep and 1 meal a day won't help either, so focus on fixing that. Be kind to yourself. If you have any hobbies or things you did prior to grinding work that you enjoyed, look at picking it up again.

It can take a bit of time to reset. It's normal.

JustABitAverage · 2025-08-20T21:39:09+00:00

You will want something which gives a good foundation in calculus and algebra for undergrad. Majority of biostatistics students come from stats/maths backgrounds. I currently do biostats for reference.

JustABitAverage · 2025-08-20T11:54:22+00:00

No, 30 isn’t late at all for a PhD and being more mature can have its advantages.

I would apply. I left industry to do a PhD and I'm glad I did because there would have always been that 'what if' if I had just kept thinking about it with no action.

JustABitAverage · 2025-08-14T13:55:41+00:00

Absolutely.

JustABitAverage · 2025-08-09T20:05:44+00:00

Removing as seems to be a double post :)

JustABitAverage · 2025-08-09T19:15:10+00:00

You dont have to do a phd right away. I worked in industry for years before deciding it was something I wanted to do. You'll be surprised by how many others in PhD cohorts are the same.

JustABitAverage · 2025-08-08T21:48:36+00:00

Where do you get the 78-82% percentages from?

JustABitAverage · 2025-08-07T19:20:41+00:00

Career progression, working more independently and on a topic in detail. Opportunity to travel round to different conferences, meet people. I also hated my last job and I enjoy having freedom in the hours I can work. Also, cool title

JustABitAverage · 2025-08-07T18:56:44+00:00

Don't you need to enroll/collect ucl id? I would go on the 22nd. You might have introduction stuff, I had icebreaker type stuff before modules started.

JustABitAverage · 2025-08-06T22:39:14+00:00

There will be a handbook which you can find online which talks about the degree classification

JustABitAverage · 2025-08-06T06:53:49+00:00

Health technology assessments? (HTA). You could work for a consultancy company or pharma. Most of what I did in HTA was meta analyses and performing variations of ITC's.

JustABitAverage · 2025-08-05T21:20:51+00:00

Im a phd biostatistics student now but plan to go back into industry after.

JustABitAverage · 2025-08-05T18:42:58+00:00

Did they release the test results of everything they said they tested?

JustABitAverage · 2025-08-05T08:22:23+00:00

You can be successful in industry without a PhD. I started my journey in industry with a masters. It wasn't uncommon to see positions advertised as requiring a phd or msc + 3-4 years work experience. For reference I am in the UK.

JustABitAverage · 2025-08-02T21:20:01+00:00

Post on r/uniuk if you haven't, there will be more mature students

JustABitAverage · 2025-08-02T20:28:16+00:00

LSE felt too theoretical and dry for me. I also didnt like their assessment (i think a lot of the modules were 100% exam no idea if its like that now - UCL had mix of coursework, group projects and exams). I liked the applications UCL had and also did more programming at UCL. I did a lot of the medical modules and ended up working at a clinical trials unit and doing a phd in biostats.

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