ELIGIBILITY: Entrance test :13th June 2010, Time: 1.

00-
Bachelor’s degree in any discipline in
Science, Engineering or Pharmacy.(Minimum
40% marks in the qualifying exam.). Those
appearing in degree exam can also apply.
However admission of a selected student
will be conformed only after submission of
the result of the degree examination.
SELECTION:
Through an entrance test (objective type)
to be held at the Dept. of Statistics,
Faculty of Science, The M.S.University of
Baroda, Vadodara- 390 002 (Gujarat).
3.00 p.m.
Venue: Department of Statistics, Faculty
of Science, The M.S. University of
Baroda
Declaration of Result: 19th June 2010.
DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS
FACULTY OF SCIENCE
COURSE FEES : (Per Semester) The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Rs.22000/- + University fees (Gymkhana Vadodara - 390 002, Gujarat, India
Fees, Lab. Dev. Fees)
COURSE DURATION : 4 Semesters

INTAKE: EXAM. FEE: Rs.1250/- (per semester)

20 seats in all. Reservation rules of the
M.S.University to be followed. ADDRESS : Prof. Rakesh Srivastava,
Course Coordinator,
HOW TO APPLY: M.Sc. Biostatistics Programme
Application forms are available on the Department of Statistics,
payment of Rs.500/- Cash / DD in favor Faculty of Science
of The Coordinator, Bio-Statistics The M.S. Univ. of Baroda,
programme, Department of Statistics, Faculty Vadodara-390 002,Guj., INDIA.
of Science, The M.S.University of Baroda
, Vadodara -390 002 or can be download Email: mscbiostat@msubaroda.ac.in
from www.msubaroda.ac.in. Forms will be
available from 1st April 2010 to 30th April,
2010. For the downloaded forms attach a CONTACTS :
DD of Rs.500/- while submitting the MASTER OF SCIENCE
application form. Telephone: 0265-2795329 EXT.:351, 353,
IN
0265-2794269,
Last date for submission of completed
application form: 11th May, 2010.
Fax : 0265- 2975569 BIOSTATISTICS
Email :
Late submission of forms till 15th May, mscbiostatistics@msubaroda.ac.in
2010 with an additional Fees of Rs.500/ YEAR 2010 - 2011
- Visit us at http:// www.msubaroda.ac.in
SCOPE AND OBJECTIVE: SYLLABI SEMESTER-III
COURSE TITLE CREDITS
Growing need of Statisticians in clinical SEMESTER-I MB301 Epidemiology 4
COURSE TITLE CREDITS MB302 Quantitative Genetics 4
research especially in pharmaceutical
MB303 Database theory and
companies, medical research institutes MB101 OR Mathematical Foundations OR Management of Biological data 4
(Including Ayurvedic Institutes) MB102 Foundations of Biology 4 MB304 Randomized Clinical Trials &
clinical biostatistics 4
environmental issues have redefined the MB103 OR Statistical Exploration of
Biological data OR MB305 Data Management
role of statistician, which calls for a (Laboratory Course) 2
MB104 Foundations of Biochemistry
better understanding of life science and and Molecular Biology 4
MB306 Statistics-III
(Laboratory Course) 3
mathematical science subject together MB105 Probability Theory and its MB307 Seminar 1
in order to take up the challenges of applications in Biology 4
MB308 Viva 1
research and development in the area MB106 Sampling techniques and Health
Surveys 4 TOTAL CREDITS: 23
of health sciences. MB107 Data Analysis using SAS SEMESTER-IV
(Laboratory Course) 2
MB401 Bioinformatics and compu-
The proposed PG course is an attempt MB108 Statistics-I (Laboratory Course) 3 tational biology 4
to cater such need and to encourage MB109 Seminar 1 MB402 Statistical pattern recognition
the co-operative efforts among members MB110 Viva 1 and its applications to
Biological sequences 4
in education, research, industry and TOTAL CREDITS: 23
MB403 Biodiversity and Statistical
business. Ecology 4
SEMESTER-II MB404 Statistics-IV (Laboratory
The two years course covers: MB201 Statistical Inference 4 Course) 2
MB202 Regression Analysis and MB405 Project 8
fundamentals of Biology, Molecular
Design of Experiments 4 MB406 Seminar 1
biology, Genetics, Bio-Chemistry, MB407 Viva 1
MB203 Population Genetics 4
Microbiology, Bio-informatics, Genome MB204 SAS Programming-1 4 Elective* 4
research, Ecology, Statistical methods, MB205 SAS Programming-2 TOTAL CREDITS: 28
Statistical modeling, Regression Analysis (Laboratory Course) 2 * Student can choose any one of the following
among others. Major highlight being MB206 Statistics-II (Laboratory Course) 3 courses as elective course.
MB207 Seminar 1
the Training and application of SAS MB408 Survival Analysis
MB 208 Viva 1 MB409 Introduction to SPSS: Data Analysis
software and substantial laboratory MB410 Demography
TOTAL CREDITS: 23
work followed by project work. MB411 Drug discovery & development