To provide students with an education that prepares them for careers as practicing statisticians and operations research practicians. This programme has been designed to

1. provide students with a broad and yet deep mathematical, statistical, and operations research education to enable them to apply their analytical skills to various career fields and special emphasis on applications in industrial and commercial areas, and
2. provide students to be well trained in the use of various computer and statistical software to solve real-life problems.

Core Courses include:
Mathematical Analysis, Linear Algebra, Numerical Methods, Operations Research, Mathematical Science Project, Simulation, Statistical Methods & Theory, Regression Analysis, Categorical Data Analysis.

Over 20 mathematical or interdisciplinary elective courses. Each student completes an individual project under the supervision of a lecturer in Year 3.

Graduates in the Statistics and Operations Research Programme may work as statisticians, actuaries and operations research consultants, which are in demand by the Government, industries, banks, marketing research companies and insurance companies.

In addition to the above objectives, our curriculum seeks to fulfill the University-wide goal of whole-person education. Communication skills are developed through the English language courses, oral and written reports required in many mathematics courses, and the Honours Project. Questions pertaining to values are the meaning of life are addressed in the Religion and Philosophy courses.

The Final Year Project is a distinctive aspect of our program. Every student pursuing an Honours Degree undertakes an independent project in Year 3. Under the supervision of a lecturer the student formulates and attempts to solve a problem on his or her own. The problem is usually applied or interdisciplinary in nature. A student's project work sometimes leads to job offers from prospective employers.

Many Final Year Projects are related to the supervisor's research interests. Lecturers in our department are pursuing research in the following areas:
Combinatorics, Computational Mechanics, Graph Theory, Image Processing, Mathematical Physics, Numerical Analysis, Operations Research, Optimization, Parallel Computing, Probability, Statistics, and Systems & Control.

Some students participate in a lecturer's research by serving as paid Student Research Assistants during their studies and/or as Research Assistants after graduation.

To support our teaching and research, the Department and Faculty have acquired a large number of personal computers, a very powerful PC cluster as well as other specialized hardware. We also have a substantial mathematical and statistical software library which is being continuously expanded and updated.

Mathematical Science graduates have entered a number of different professions, mainly teaching, commercial, and computer-related. Every year a number of graduates go on to pursue advanced degrees in mathematics, statistics, computing, finance, education, and business.

BSc (Hons) in Statistics and Operations Research degree programme is obtained partial exemption of the Hong Kong Statistics Society (HKSS) Graduate Diploma examination and qualify to join the HKSS as a Graduate Statistician upon achieving satisfactory result in respect of the relevant statistics courses in the degree examination. For detail.

Level 2/Grade E or above in at least 6 subjects including General Mathematics, English Language (Grade C or above for Syllabus A), and either Chinese Language or an alternative language (other than Chinese and English) and with at least 5 subjects in a single sitting.

Grade E or above in AL Pure Mathematics [or AS Mathematics & Statistics], plus one other AL subject or two AS subjects [one AL subject and one AL/AS subject], one of which must be taken from [AL Pure Mathematics], AL/AS Applied Mathematics, AL/AS Physics, AL/AS Chemistry, AL Biology, AL Computer Science, AS Computers, AS Mathematics & Statistics, AL/AS Economics, AL Principles of Accounts.