The Department of statistics was founded in 1989 within the College of Natural Sciences and was renamed as the divisionof Statistic al Informatics in 1998 when amalgamated in to the school of Mathematics and Statistical Informatics. It has offered graduate program (Master’s and Ph.D program in Statistics) since 1990.
Master’s program of Statistical Informatics major within graduate school of Information Science was added in 2003. The Institute fo r Applied Statistics was established in 2005.