The M. Sc. / M. A. Statistics program is an academic course covering both theoretical and applied areas of Statistics. It is divided into four semesters (six months per semester) with a total duration of 2 years and annual intake system. The program contains 11 core courses, 5 optional courses, 3 computing (practical) courses, dissertation and two additional courses as an alternative option for dissertation. The department also provides non-credit training courses on statistical software such as MS Excel, SPSS, and STATA (Subject to change upon necessity). The distribution of courses in different semesters is shown in the structure below.

SN Semester Code Subject Credit Marks
1 I STA511 Mathematics for Statistics 3 75
2 STA512 Probability 3 75
3 STA513 Statistical Inference 3 75
4 STA514 Multivariate Analysis 3 75
5 STA515 Stochastic Processes 3 75
6 STA516 Programming Language 3 75
7 STA517 Statistical Computing-I (Practical) 4 100
                                               Total 22 550
8 II STA521 Mathematical Demography 3 75
9 STA522 Sampling Theory 3 75
10 STA523 Design of Experiments 3 75
Optional Paper (Any Two)
11 STA524 Econometrics 3 X 2

= 6

 150
12 STA525 Quality Control and Reliability
13 STA526 Nonparametric Statistics
14 STA527 Population Statistics
15 STA528 Statistical Computing-II (Practical) 4 100
                                               Total 19 475
16 III STA631 Bayesian Inference 3 75
17 STA632 Research Methodology 3 75
Optional Paper (Any Three)
18 STA633 Biostatistics 3 X 3

= 9

 225
19 STA634 Environmetrics
20 STA635 Time Series Analysis
21 STA636 Operations Research
22 STA637 Survival Analysis
23 STA638 Actuarial Statistics
24 STA639 Statistical Computing-III (Practical) 4 100
Total 19 475
IV Any One between

Dissertation and Two Alternative Papers
25 STA641    Dissertation 4 100
Alternative Papers (2 Credits each)
26 STA642 Meta Analysis 2
27 STA643 Nonparametric and Categorical Data Modeling 2
Total 4 100
Grand Total 64 1600

Syllabus (Downloadable PDF file)

List of currently admitted students

First/Second Semester

S.N.  Roll No. Name
1 STA 525 AJAY KUMAR KUSHWAHA
2 STA 526 AJAYA PATHAK
3 STA 527 AKASH  KSHETRI
4 STA 528 AMREET JUNG BASNET
5 STA 529 ANJANA  KHANAL
6 STA 530 ANUP  THAPA
7 STA 531 BALRAM  HARIJAN CHAMAR
8 STA 532 BASANTI BHARATI
9 STA 533 BHAIRAV ROKA
10 STA 534 BISWASH  KUNWAR
11 STA 535 DABAL PACHHAI
12 STA 536 DEEPENDRA SHAH
13 STA 537 DIBYA  KHATRI
14 STA 538 DIKSHA  GAUTAM
15 STA 539 DILIP THAPA
16 STA 540 DIPENDRA THARU
17 STA 541 DIWASH  PARAJULI
18 STA 542 ISHWARI DHAKAL
19 STA 543 JIBESH ACHARYA
20 STA 544 KESHAB DHUNGANA
21 STA 545 KIRAN POUDEL
22 STA 546 KRISHNA TIWARI
23 STA 547 MADHAV PRASAD UPADHYAY
24 STA 548 MAHESH UPADHAYAYA
25 STA 549 MANITA  ACHARYA
26 STA 550 MANITA  RIJAL
27 STA 551 MANOJ KC
28 STA 552 MEKH LAL ALE
29 STA 553 MOHAN RAJ AWASTHI
30 STA 554 NAKUL BUDHATHOKI
31 STA 555 NARAYAN  PANDEY
32 STA 556 NURENDRA RIMAL
33 STA 557 PRASIDDHA  SHARMA
34 STA 558 PRATIMA KHAREL
35 STA 559 PUJA GURUNG
36 STA 560 RABIN  DAHAL
37 STA 561 RABINA  TAMANG
38 STA 562 SABIN  KHAREL
39 STA 563 SAJANI  JIMBA
40 STA 564 SANDESH RIJAL
41 STA 565 SANDIP SHRESTHA
42 STA 566 SANGAM  RAI
43 STA 567 SAPHAL  CHAPAGAI
44 STA 568 SHIVA CHAPAGAI
45 STA 569 SIDDHANTA SUBEDI
46 STA 570 SRISA RIJAL
47 STA 571 TEZINA KHADKA
48 STA 572 TILAK ACHARYA
49 STA 573 UMA GAHA
50 STA 574 USHA SARU
51 STA 575 YOGENDRA PARAJULI

Third/Fourth semester

S.N. Roll No. Name
1 STA 460 ABINASH KHADKA
2 STA 461 AMRIT POUDEL
3 STA 462 ANIKET TIMILSINA
4 STA 463 ANIL GYAWALI
5 STA 464 ANIL SAPKOTA
6 STA 465 ARJUN PRASAD DHAMALA
7 STA 466 ASHOK GAUTAM
8 STA 467 BAIKUNTHA ADHIKARI
9 STA 468 BARSHA GHARTI RANA
10 STA 469 BHUWAN BHUSAL
11 STA 470 BIBEK LOHANI
12 STA 471 BIJAYA BHATTARAI
13 STA 472 BIJAYA GURAGAIN
14 STA 473 BIMAL ACHARYA
15 STA 474 BISHAL KUMAR KHADKA
16 STA 475 BISHWO NATH POKHAREL
17 STA 476 CHHATRA BAHADUR LIMBU
18 STA 479 GAJADHAR POUDEL
19 STA 480 HARI CHHANTYAL
20 STA 481 JAGAT PRASAD CHAULAGAIN
21 STA 482 JANAK KARKI
22 STA 483 JEVAN AANANDA DANGI
23 STA 484 KALAWATI BUDHATHOKI
24 STA 485 KAMAL SIJAPATI BADUWAL
25 STA 486 KRISHNA ADHIKARI
26 STA 487 KSHITIJ PAUDEL
27 STA 488 MADHAV ARYAL
28 STA 489 MILAN BHATTARAI
29 STA 490 MILAN BHUJEL
30 STA 491 NABIN SIMKHADA
31 STA 494 PRAKASH BHATTARAI
32 STA 495 PRAKASH SUBEDI
33 STA 496 PREM RAJ UPADHAYAYA
34 STA 497 RAMESH NEUPANE
35 STA 498 RIJU RIMAL
36 STA 499 SADIKSHYA POUDEL
37 STA 500 SANDESH BHANDARI
38 STA 501 SANGITA SHRESTHA
39 STA 502 SANTOSH PANGENI
40 STA 503 SANTOSH RAJ SUBEDI
41 STA 504 SAROJ LAMICHHANE
42 STA 505 SAROJ SHRESTHA
43 STA 506 SAROJ SHRESTHA
44 STA 507 SAUGAT SHARMA
45 STA 508 SHANKAR ACHARYA
46 STA 510 SMRITI RAI
47 STA 511 SRIJANA BHURTYAL
48 STA 512 SUBAS TAMANG
49 STA 513 SUBASH BASYAL
50 STA 514 SUDIP SILWAL
51 STA 515 SUJAN DEV SIMKHADA
52 STA 516 SUMI KUMARI BHEDI
53 STA 517 SUSHILA SUBEDI
54 STA 518 SUSMITA BARAL

Central Department of Statistics started to produce Ph. D. in Statistics from the year 2005 under the supervision of Prof. Mrigendra Lal Singh. Since then the department has produced Ph. D.s in Statistics regularly for the span of around 20 years with the output of 14 Ph. D. Statistics holders. Diverse areas of Statistics have been covered in Ph. D. researches such as demographic and related areas, environmental health and climate change, agricultural statistics, Bayesian inference, tourism statistics, and many more with substantial contributions to Statistics through statistical models and analysis methods, techniques and tools. At present, altogether 9 scholars are undertaking their Ph. D. research works.

Ongoing Ph.D. (Statistics)

SN Name Year of enrollment Supervisor / Co-supervisor
1 Mr. Krishna Prasad Acharya 2014 Prof. Dr. Shankar Prasad Khanal,

Prof. Dr. Devendra Chhetry
2 Mr. Kishor Khanal 2018 Prof. Dr. Shankar Prasad Khanal
3 Mr. Rajendra Prasad Upadhayaya 2018 Prof. Dr. Vikash Kumar K.C.
4 Mr. Madhab Baral 2018 Prof. Dr. Vikash Kumar K.C.
5 Mr. Ishwari Prasad Banjade 2018 Prof. Dr. Srijan Lal Shrestha
6 Mr. Madhav Kumar Bhusal 2020 Prof. Dr. Shankar Prasad Khanal
7 Mr. Ishwar Kumar Shrestha 2020 Prof. Dr. Shankar Prasad Khanal
8 Mr. Yogesh Man Shrestha 2020 Prof. Dr. Ramesh Kumar Joshi
9 Mr. Surendra Raj Nepal 2021 Prof. Dr. Srijan Lal Shrestha