Institut de Statistiques de l'Université de Paris is a graduate school of statistics based in Paris, in the fifth arrondissement. It offers specializations in actuarial sciences, Biostatistics as well as industry and services. The ISUP is considered as one of the most prestigious centers of learning of statistics in France, reflected in the number of job offers received regularly, the strength of its alumni network, and wages offered to its students out of school, which place it in the "top 15-ranked" French Grandes Ecoles Founded in 1922 by the mathematician Émile Borel, is the oldest and one of the most prestigious schools for statistics in France. The institute is currently affiliated to Sorbonne University and located on the campus of Jussieu.
History
Origin
The ISUP is the oldest training statistics in France: it was founded in 1922 20 years before the ENSAE and 72 years before the ENSAI. At the end of the Great War, Émile Borel, one of the greatest mathematicians of his time, was appointed to the Chair of Probability and Mathematical Physics at the University of Paris. So at this time, there is almost no teaching of statistics and the idea of applying mathematics to any specific field arouses contempt "real" mathematicians. Borel is confident that in economy - in Insurance, in particular - there is a demand. This intuition is the basis for the creation of the ISUP 1922. During the thirty years that followed, under the leadership of mathematical leaders, ISUP will initiate the introduction in France, the teaching of statistics and industrial applications, management or Operational Research.
Notable people from ISUP
Émile Borel, Academician, fondator and first director
The current headmaster is Olivier Lopez. Among teachers, traditionally shared with the University of Paris VI or with some ESSEC or Dauphine, several have a worldwide reputation for their research. These include Jean Jacod, Paul Deheuvels, Gérard Biau. On its website, the administration announced that it received 1,064 job offers in 2007, it represents more than 20 offers per student. The average compensation for hiring students ISUP makes the ISUP among major French schools that offer the best remuneration.
Most teachers take part in scientific research in the areas of statistics, most often at the Laboratory of theoretical and applied statistics. It is a major laboratory of research in statistics thanks to the number and impact of publications. It has 8 professors, 10 Lecturers, 20 external and 80 doctoral and post-doctoral students.
