The Department of Statistics and Operations Research (male department) has two locations in college of Science building (4), one in the ground floor in front of the stairs (4), which includes offices of faculty members, halls and computer laboratories that accommodate a multitude of computers to facilitate the research needs and training students and teaching purposes, and to meet the needs of research projects for final year students and graduate students. The department also provides through the branch of operations research, advice on programming and project planning and scheduling production and optimal use of resources of all kinds.ĭepartment location, its human recourses and financial capability Also, department provides statistical advice to applied research projects within and outside the university, both in designing the research or in data analysis and interpretation of results.
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The department provides services inside and outside the University it offers courses in Statistics for students in Science College and other students in different departments such as engineering (for male only), computers, agriculture, social studies, medicine, applied medical science, dentistry and pharmacy. The department now gives masters and doctorate degree in its two branches: statistics and operations research (in male and female sections). The female department was opened in 1408 AH as a supportive to serve other departments in college of Science but a Bachelor degree is not granted. The department has evolved rapidly during the few years since its foundation where it began offering a Masters in Statistics in 1400AH also a significant increase in the number of students especially after the opening of the operations research specialty in 1406 AH. The statistic department was founded in 1399 AH after it was part of the Mathematics Department since the founding of the Sciences College in 1378AH.