The Department has been offering M.Sc., M.Phil., and Ph.D., programmes in Statistics. The Post Graduate degree program is conducted in the semester pattern under Choice Based Credit System. The Department is offering the M.Sc., course with an objective of preparing the students to apply statistical methods to practical situations. Curriculum for M.Sc., (Statistics with Computer Applications) degree course has been designed following the structure given in the Curriculum Report published by the University Grants Commission

      Thrust areas of research interest of faculty members include Statistical Inference, Statistical Quality Control and Reliability, Stochastic processes, Stochastic modeling, Bio Statistics and Data mining. The faculty members are carrying out individual and collaborative research works and are publishing research papers in reputed journals and presented research papers in various conferences at both national and international levels. At present, 25 candidates have completed their doctoral programme in this department and have been awarded with Ph.D., degree in Statistics. Currently, 26 research scholars are persuing their Research Programme leading to Ph.D., degree in this department.

Grants Received :

1. The department has been awarded with a grant of Rs. 15 lakhs by the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi under FIST programme.
2. UGC has sanctioned an amount of Rs.10 lakhs for strengthening of infrastructure under the scheme of improving Basic Scientific Research in Non-SAP departments in Sciences, Agricultural Sciences and Engineering Sciences in Universities/Colleges.

1. Two research fellowships are sanctioned by UGC for Meritorious Research Scholars in Statistics and Eight Research Fellowships are sanctioned by Manonmaniam Sundaranar University.
2. A separate departmental library consisting of 700 books of various titles in Statistics for reference purpose including Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences (16 Volumes), Encyclopedia of Bio-Statistics (8 Volumes), Sage Publications in Statistics for Social Sciences (152 Volumes) and Data Analysis (4 Volumes)
3. A well-equipped computer laboratory with four licensed software (SPSS -16.0, S-PLUS -8.0, STATA-10 and SYSTAT-12.0 )

Eligibility conditions for admission:

    (1) A candidate who has passed  (i) B.Sc. Degree with Statistics / Mathematics as the main subject or (ii) B.Sc., Degree with Computer Science / Information Technology / Physics as the main subject and Mathematics as an allied or ancillary subject with 45% Marks (40% in the case of SC/ST) in aggregate in Part III shall be permitted to join the course and to appear and qualify for M.Sc., STATISTICS WITH COMPUTER APPLICATIONS Degree Examination of this University after a course of study of two academic years in the University Department of Statistics.

    (2) Duration of the Course: The course of study shall be based on semester pattern. The course shall consists of four semesters covering a total period of two academic years. For this purpose each academic year shall be divided into two semesters: The first period of the semester is July to November and the second period of the semester is December to April.