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I'm curious, what exactly is an engineering degree in statistics?

• pfarnsworth 10y ago
  In France, Statistics is considered part of engineering.
  • davidivadavid 10y ago
    That's not quite correct. However, "engineering" in France is more of a title than a field. It corresponds to all degrees delivered by the écoles d'ingénieurs which, although they were intended to create engineers, have since evolved to meet the requirements of the job market, and have kept their name although their teachings aren't quite as strictly engineering-related as they used to be. So yeah, you could get a degree from an engineering school that's mostly about statistics. But you could also learn about statistics while doing a math degree at the university. It's just some terminological oddity coming from our weird system.
    • kejaed 10y ago
      Thanks for the explanation.