Faculty of Statistics

Overview: The Statistics Department of Government Graduate College, Sahiwal is offering Stats related Degree programs at BS level. Statistics lies at the heart of quantitative reasoning and analyses that are essential for solving problems in diverse contexts and to add substance to decisions. Statistical skills enable intelligent data collection, analyses and interpretation for decision support in various fields e.g., economics, business and public policy, as well as for research and development in various science disciplines, such as medicine, bioinformatics, forensics, image reconstruction and several others. No doubt, Statistics is the only subject of its own that can bridge-up many disciplines through data and analysis. On October 20, 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) celebrated the World Statistics Day with the slogan, "Better Data... Better Lives..."! The demand for statisticians is currently high and growing fast. Very few other disciplines offer you with as wide a range of employment possibilities as statistics does. A graduate in the statistics finds a wide range of employment possibilities as an academician, data analyst in industry, business, agriculture, health sector, and a private statistical consultant or to become an integral part of an organization of planning and development and many more...! A degree in Statistics can help to prepare you for any of these. History: The Department of Statistics started functioning from January 14, 1970. Presently, the department is situated in a newly constructed building, M.A./M.Sc. Block adjacent to the older one. Besides its very humble start, the department can now be compared with top-ranking teaching departments of the subject in the colleges of Punjab Higher Education Department. In 1999, two year Masters program was started in affiliation with B.Z. University, Multan. In 2010, BS 4 year program was started to meet the international standard of education. The teaching faculty of the Department consists of ten teachers; one of them is Ph.D. holder and seven of them hold M.Phil. degrees and currently, one of them is pursuing his Ph.D. Our respected teacher Mr. Zain-ul-Iman Ahmad, Ex HOD, won the best teacher award of Sahiwal Division and the Punjab Province. To get a flawless connection with the current world, we need a rapid transfer of information and knowledge via information technology. The department is fully equipped with state-of-the-art IT laboratory in collaboration with IT department for computing Statistics, data Processing and data analysis by utilizing modern statistical packages/ languages like R, STATA, MINITAB, E-Views, and SPSS. Above packages are being taught in Masters and BS classes as compulsory courses. About 2000 valuable books of Statistics are available for students and teachers in the college library. The Study tours of the students to various statistics departments/ institutions and organizations are also being arranged by the department as a part of its study program to highlight the importance and implementation of statistics in practical life.