Established in 1963, the department boasts a long history of over half a century, with well over ten thousand alumni. Currently, it includes undergraduate and graduate programs. Three classes are offered for the undergraduate program, recruiting roughly 165 students per year while the graduate programs in applied statistics and data science accept 15 students and 12 students annually, respectively. The milestones of our department are as follows:
- 1963 Night Division of Statistics for the Department of Accounting and Statistics
- 1965 Day Division of Statistics for the Department of Accounting and Statistics
- 1973 Rename the Day Division to the Department of Statistics
- 1974 Rename the Night Division to the Department of Statistics
- 1997 Master’s Program in Applied Statistics
Suspend operation of the Night Division
Expand the Day Division to four classes - 2000 Three classes for the Day Division and one class for the Continuing Education Division
- 2017 Master’s Program in Big Data Analytics and Business Intelligence
- 2021 Master’s Program in Data Science
Suspend Master’s Program in Big Data Analytics and Business Intelligence
The following have served as department chairs:
- Pao-Kung Jui (1973-1975, Day Division )
- Ho-Fuh Chi (1974-1977, Night Division)
- Fu-Sin Chou (1975-1978, Day Division)
- Liang-Yuh Ouyang (1977-1980, Night Division)
- Tien-Wen Chen (1978-1980, Day Division)
- Liang-Yuh Ouyang (1980-1981)
- Horng-Jinh Chang (1981-1984)
- Liang-Yuh Ouyang (1984-1986)
- Kuang-Nan Lin (1986-1992)
- Chiu-Chuan Wu (1992-1998)
- Jong-Wuu Wu (1998-2004)
- Tzong-Ru Tsai (2004-2010)
- Bor-Shyh Wen (2010-2012)
- Shu-Fei Wu (2012-2014)
- Jyh-Jiuan Lin (2014-2016)
- Shuo-Jye We (2016-2018)
- Hsiu-Mei Lee (2018-2020)
- Wen Yang (2020-2024)
- Pai-Ling Li (2024-present)