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With a view to serving the national Big Data Strategy and promoting the construction of Double First-Class disciplines, Nankai University established the School of Statistics and Data Science in May 2018 on the basis of the Institute of Statistics.

The Statistics Discipline at Nankai University can be dated back to the 1950s when Professor Zikun Wang (member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Mr. Guoding Hu first founded the Probability and Statistics Discipline. In 1981, the Probability and Statistics Discipline became one of the first doctoral programs in China, and stayed as a national key second-tier discipline in the China Discipline Ranking in 1988, 2002 and 2007. In 2011, as the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council re-defined Statistics as a first-tier discipline, we were also among the first doctoral programs in Statistics, and ranked fourth nationwide in the 2012 China Discipline Ranking. In 2017, we were selected as a national “Double First-Class” discipline and ranked third in the Fourth China Discipline Ranking. In 2019, our undergraduate program in statistics entered the national First-Class Undergraduate Program Construction Project.

We are now recruiting and training students in the following programs:

Doctor of Science in Statistics

Master of Science in Statistics

Master of Applied Statistics (Occupational Degree)

Bachelor of Science in Statistics

Bachelor of Science in Data Science and Big Data Technology