As Head, with the staff and students, we welcome you to one of the top-ranked Statistics departments in Nigeria. The broad range of disciplines we cover include Mathematical and Computational Statistics, Probability theory, Time Series, Data Science, Operations Research, Combinatorial optimization, Bayesian and inferential Statistics, Survival and epidemiological modeling, Sample Survey, Stochastic Processes, Data Analysis, Statistical Quality Control.
The staff and students of the department have earned many awards, grants and sponsorships. The department focus on providing students with the best education possible. No matter where they want to excel, we strive to make sure all our students have the tools and resources they need to prepare them for tomorrow’s workforce.

The Department of Statistics in University of Lagos combines the power and diversity of its different areas in Statistics to empower our students in all our programmes. The Department has over 100 undergraduates, more than 50 masters and doctoral postgraduate students, and about 20 academic and adjunct staff researching and working with collaborators both within and outside the university.
I invite you to explore our web site, where you will find details of our programmes, courses, admission requirements, staff and their areas of research, latest news, upcoming events, listings of regular seminars and other information.