Frequently Asked Questions   General Queries. • Departmental FAQ for general awareness and queries  Historical Events of Department. • What is the Foundation Year of the Statistics Department, CU?  • Where was it started first?  • Who was the first Head of the Department?  • When did the Department shift to the main campus of CU?  • When did the department shift to the present location?  Admission Related Queries. • What is the basic eligibility of getting into the Master’s course  • When does the admission to the postgraduate course begin ?  Examination and Result Related Queries. • Examination & Result related queries  A Brief Profile of the Department. • Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta, Position in the Country

General Queries.  Departmental FAQ for general awareness and queries  • In this section department is going to provide information regarding its historical events, achivements, position & prestige in the Universities of the country & abroad. Department is constantly working in developing this section with more information so that it can fullfill the quest of its users.   Historical Events of Department.  What is the Foundation Year of the Statistics Department, CU?  • in July 1941 the department of Statistics Was founded.   Where was it started first?  • The Department started first at the Presidency College premises.   Who was the first Head of the Department?  • Professor P.C. Mahalanobis was the first Honourary Head of the Department   When did the Department shift to the main campus of CU?  • The Department shifted to Asutosh Building of the College Street Campus of the University in 1945.    When did the department shift to the present location?  • It shifted to its present location in the Ballygunge Science Campus in 1964.  Admission Related Queries.  What is the basic eligibility of getting into the Master’s course  • The Department currently has 35 seats for the postgraduate course. Students passing the Honours course in Statistics from any college under Calcutta University are eligible to apply. The selection would be based on the marks obtained in the Honours Examination. However, 5% of the seats (that is two seats)are meant (not reserved) for students having a Bachelor’s Degree with First Class Honours in Statistics from any Registered University. Selection of such students will be based on their suitability for the course as judged through an interview.    When does the admission to the postgraduate course begin ?  • After the B.Sc.(Honours) results of Calcutta University are published a notification by the University is issued inviting applications for the postgraduate course. This is generally around July or August.  Examination and Result Related Queries.  Examination & Result related queries  • Examination & Result related queries will be supplied accordingly in our Notice section. Users are requested to follow up our Notice section for their requied information.   A Brief Profile of the Department.  Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta, Position in the Country  • It is still considered to be one of the best statistics department in the country in terms of of its research output, syllabus, teaching and stident quality. Its syllabus is a model to the other universities and it is the first department in the country to design two new courses a few years back viz. ‘statistics for development’ and ‘evolution of statistical concepts’ and later these were in the M.Sc. syllabus. The students of the department have been consistently doing well in the Indian Statistical Service Examination conducted by UPSC and in the NET, GATE examinations.