Spend less time teaching students how to use software and more time helping them understand statistics, econometrics, data science, and research methods.
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Students are productive from day one
Students can start analyzing data immediately with intuitive menus, consistent syntax, and built-in help files with examples.
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Course materials that last
Course materials continue working across future versions of Stata, so you spend less time updating course content and more time teaching.
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Teach career skills students will use
Students learn reproducible workflows and professional statistical tools they'll continue using in research and industry.
Everything you need to support your students.
An on-demand recording of our free webinar introducing new users to Stata; perfect to get students started.
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Short tutorials ideal for teaching. Browse curated playlists or create one tailored to your course needs.
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Explore resources, course materials, and licensing options designed for K–12 or undergraduate instruction.
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Stata provides a complete suite of tools for advanced statistical analysis, intuitive data visualization, efficient data manipulation, and automated reporting. No extra modules or hidden costs.
Stata's statistical features empower you to answer a wide range of research questions. From linear and logistic regression to time-series and panel-data analyses, survival models, causal inference, Bayesian analysis, and machine learning, you can fit models, evaluate assumptions, make inferences, and interpret results with confidence.
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Create publication-quality graphs with customizable layouts, labels, and colors. Export seamlessly to EPS, PNG, PDF, SVG, or TIFF, making it easy to integrate visuals into reports and presentations.
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Clean, reshape, and manage your data with ease. Stata's tools handle large datasets, missing values, merges, and time-series structures, helping you prepare your data for analysis using just a few commands.
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Automate report generation with seamless exports to Word, Excel, PDF, and HTML. Create customizable tables and dynamic reports that update as your data change—ensuring transparency and reproducibility.
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Many people talk about reproducible research. Stata has been dedicated to it for over 40 years. Unlike other software, you do not have to keep multiple installations of old versions of Stata, hoping they will still run on a modern operating system, to be able to run code from years or decades before. You can simply use modern Stata, and it will understand any old code or dataset. In addition to backward compatibility, Stata also offers many tools to ensure numerical, stochastic, and computer reproducibility.
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"Stata is powerful yet versatile statistical software that I have used throughout my career. Perhaps more importantly, it is also incredibly student friendly and a great tool for teaching statistics."
Dennis Patterson
Texas Tech University
"I use Stata exclusively as a professional biostatistician, and I use it in all of the graduate statistics courses I teach. When I consult with researchers who want to do their own analyses while being mentored by a biostatistician, they also use Stata and they all have a good experience because it is so incredibly easy to learn."
Greg Stoddard
University of Utah
"From the classroom to the research lab, Stata is my constant. The ease of learning the syntax, paired with the confidence that my code will work through future updates, gives it a longevity that other software can't match. Add in the stellar developer and customer support, and I’m a Stata user for life."
Leslie Anne Keown
University of Regina
"Stata offers the perfect balance of expert-level capability and user friendliness. In a very short amount of time, students can quickly go from knowing nothing about data analysis to writing simple lines of code for essential descriptive analyses. The intuitiveness of the code syntax, clean formatting of output, and ability to manually edit data visualizations are just three of the many features that make Stata a great choice for anyone looking to start learning how to gain insights from data."
John V. Kane
New York University
"I've used a lot of stat packages over the years, but I find that I’m using Stata 95% of the time now. It’s wonderful! Its speed and power are much touted, but its simplicity for beginners is perhaps one of its best features.”
Rodney Hayward
University of Michigan
VA Center for Clinical Management Research
"I've been using Stata since graduate school and have found it to be an ideal balance between power, technical sophistication, and ease of use. The built-in help files are extraordinary, the syntax is easy to grasp, and for the times when you need it to do something it doesn't know how to do, you can write your own modules in the same language.”
Matthew Brashears
University of South Carolina
Answers to the most-asked questions posed from our user community.
Yes. Stata can be used to teach both foundational concepts and advanced methods across statistics, econometrics, epidemiology, biostatistics, data science, and other research disciplines. Students can work with data management, visualization, statistical analysis, and reproducible workflows in one integrated platform.
Stata is designed to help students begin working with data quickly. Students can use point-and-click menus as they get started and transition to Stata’s consistent command syntax as they become more comfortable. Built-in help, examples, documentation, tutorials, and other learning resources provide additional support throughout the course.
Stata provides instructors and students with documentation, example datasets, video tutorials, cheat sheets, webinars, Stata Press books, and online learning resources. These resources can help students get started and provide support as they progress to more advanced methods. Explore even more Stata resources here.
Stata supports methods ranging from summary statistics and linear and logistic regression to time series and panel-data analysis, survival analysis, causal inference, Bayesian analysis, machine learning, and more. Instructors can teach data management, visualization, analysis, and reporting without requiring students to move between separate software packages.
Students have several options for accessing Stata. Individual student licenses are available for six months or one year. Many universities also provide access through campus-wide, departmental, or student lab licenses. Instructors can also explore short-term licensing options depending on their course needs. See our affordable and free options depending on your situation. If you believe your university might already have access to Stata, contact your IT department for access.
Yes. Students learn how to manage and analyze data, create visualizations, write reproducible code, interpret statistical results, and build reproducible research workflows—skills they can continue to use in academic research and professional settings.
