Milestones

1967 - Established in Knowles Building as one of the departments under the Faculty of Social Sciences

1969 - Professor S H Saw was appointed as the founding chair

1969 - Developed the Statistics curriculum

1985 - Moved offices from Knowles Building to Run Run Shaw Building

1987 - Launched the Master of Statistics programme (then Master of Social Sciences in Applied Statistics programme)

1994 - Launched the Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science programme

1995 - Moved offices from Run Run Shaw Building to Meng Wah Complex

1998 - Renamed the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science

1998 - HKU designated the area of financial time series as an area of distinction within the University

2004 - Transferred to the Faculty of Science

2004 - Launched the Major of Risk Management

2004 - Established the Patrick Poon Lecture Series in Actuarial Science

2009 - Established the Saw Swee Hock Public Lecture in Statistics

2011 - Established the Patrick S C Poon Professorship in Statistics and Actuarial Science

2011 - Designated as a Center of Actuarial Excellence by the US Society of Actuaries

2014 - Moved offices from Meng Wah Complex to Run Run Shaw Building

2015 - Launched the Major in Decision Analytics

2016 - HKU Statistics ranked No.1 in Hong Kong and No.23 worldwide according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject