| 1977 | B.Sc. (First Class Honors) in Statistics, University of Khartoum, Sudan. |
| 1979 | Postgraduate Certificate in Statistics, University of Southampton, England. |
1979 |
Certificate (Sampling program for foreign statisticians), University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. |
| 1981 | MSc (Social Statistics), University of Southampton, England. |
| 1984 | PhD (Statistics), University of Southampton, England.Thesis Title: Sampling on successive occasions from a changing population. |