The Department of Statistics, one among 20 academic departments in Bharathiar University, was started during the year 1979 under Post-Graduate Autonomous Centre of University of Madras with M.Phil., and Ph.D., programmes offered in Statistics. At present, the department is a full-fledged research department and offers Post-Graduate programme in Statistics besides M.Phil, and Ph.D., Programmes.
Library Facility: The department has its own library with an adequate number of text books along with research papers collection, back volumes and reprints and it caters, to some extent, the needs of post-graduate students and research scholars.
For an effective implementation of this programme an air-conditioned computer laboratory supported by twenty computer systems with higher-end configurations has been established.