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BRIEF HISTORY

The increasing demand for more and better statistics has brought to the front position the importance of statistics as a strategic resource for national and international development. Statistics are now recognized internationally as a part of enabling environment for the development. Statistical methods are applied to enormous numerical facts with an objective that "behind every data there is a story". According to the World Bank, good quality statistical data are needed to manage results to make evidence-based decisions about allocation and management of scarce resources. Because of this increased utilization in other fields, and more job opportunities the student community started choosing statistics as the course of study. Keeping this in mind, the management of the Madura College has offering B.Sc.(Statistics) programme from 2017 with affiliation from Madurai Kamaraj University in Self Financing Stream. In 2019, the department was upgraded into a post-graduate department with the introduction of M.Sc.(Statistics) programme and thereby became the first college to provide M.Sc. Statistics affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University under aided stream. Five faculty members with Ph.D. associates the department in handling the academic activities.

Vision

Vision of the Statistics department is to develop student's ability to think analytically, speculatively and imaginatively and to encourage them to pursue higher education for the purpose of continuous curriculum innovations.

Mission

• To help students develop their intellect and faith.
• To provide excellent training in scientific data collections, data management, methods and procedure of data analysis.
• To facilitate students to see themselves as professional, as part of a discipline with skills and abilities valuable in business, teaching and publishing.

PROGRAMMES OFFERED

FUTURE PLAN:

• To upgrade the department as Research Centre.
• To apply Research Projects from various Funding agencies like DST and MOSPI
• To apply for the grants from UGC under Special Assistance Program (SAP) and Basic Scientific Research (BSR).
• To introduce career development programmes so that students can make informed choices about their academic and professional life once they graduate from the college.