Currently there are twelve academic staff, including Professors A. P. Dawid, V. S. Isham, V. Farewell, S. Senn and T. Fearn. The Department has its own workstations and personal computers as well as access to the machines of UCL's Central Computing Service. The Royal Statistical Society Library is housed within the College. Two taught postgraduate courses are offered, the M.Sc. and the Diploma. Either course may be taken part-time.
Entry normally requires at least an upper second-class Honours degree or equivalent.
The Department also offers supervision of research for the degrees of M. Phil. The course lasts for twelve months, with written examinations in May, and submission of a dissertation in September. It is intended primarily for numerate graduates, in a variety of disciplines, who already have some background in mathematical methods, statistics and probability. Students also normally select three options chosen from a range of applied topics in Statistics, Probability and Operational Research, and work on a project, usually of an applied nature, over the summer. This nine-month course, with examinations in May, is intended for numerate graduates with a knowledge of introductory probability and statistics who wish to attain a level equivalent to an Honours degree in Statistics.