The department of Statistics was established in the year 1958 as a part of Mathematics Department then separated as an independent department in the year 1962. The department offers three post graduate courses (i) M. Sc Statistics (ii) M. Sc. Applied Statistics and (iii) M. Sc Applied Statistics (Self Finance Course). The department is active in organizing various academic programmers like conferences and workshop apart from teaching, research and consultancy. The department has organized about 60+ events covering wide areas like Operations Research, Stochastic modeling, Geo-Statistics, Bio-Statistics, Data Envelopment Analysis, Statistical computing. The thrust areas of ongoing research in the department are Operations Research, Stochastic modeling, Data Envelopment Analysis. The UGC has identified the department for special assistance sanctioned 44 Lakhs plus 2 project fellows at SAP- DRS-I and 40 Lakhs plus 10 research fellows under BSR and DST FIST 16.5 lakhs.