Jahangirnagar Muslim University was established on 12 January 1971, full of the beauty of
nature and greenery. Jahangirnagar University started its journey in the first academic year of
1970-1971 with a total of 150 students in the first batch of Economics, Geography, Mathematics
and Information Science (later Statistics). The Jahangirnagar University Act 1973 was passed in
the session of the first National Parliament of Independent Bangladesh and the university was
renamed as ‘Jahangirnagar University’. The Department of Statistics started its journey at the
inception of the University and in a short span of time it was able to make a significant
contribution to the study of statistics at the national and global levels. Meanwhile, over two
thousand students have obtained undergraduate and postgraduate, M.Phil and Ph.D degrees from
this department. Graduates are working in the workplace with reputation at home and abroad.
Their contribution is nationally and internationally recognized, who have been contributing in
research, art, literature and above all in various branches of human welfare. Alumni Association
has been taking steps to provide sincere cooperation to the current and former students in matters
of interest by establishing unity, friendship, harmony and brotherhood to create effective
collaboration between the graduates of the Department of Statistics. The Jahangirnagar
University Statistics Department Alumni Association was established in 1990 with the fruitful
initiatives and efforts of the alumni to play an effective role in advancing the statistics
department of Jahangirnagar University globally through the development of all types of
educational environment such as arranging meetings, seminars, career counseling, exhibitions
and entertainment for alumni through the development of an effective relationship; establishment
of museums, cultural centers, laboratories, sports and entertainment centers; Publishing bulletins
and periodicals.
