Statisticsdisciplinehas a long history. As early as 1937, when Ma Yanchu was the first Dean of Chongqing University Business School, statistics was one of the three earliest departments established in the business school. In 1939, a special course in statistics was added, which was one of the earliest universities in China to start statistics education. In 2002, the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science was established.The right to grant master degrees in probability theory and mathematical statistics was obtained in 2003. The major of statistics was approved in 2004. In 2010, ithasthe right to grant professional master degree in applied statistics and the right to grant doctoral degree in statistics.

Statistics is a level-1 key discipline in Chongqing. In the fourth round of discipline evaluation, statistics hasbeen rankedB-. At present, the statistical discipline has a research group of statistical finance mathematics.