Welcome to the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science

The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science is among the top academic units for statistical and actuarial science in the world and is home to more than 40 research active full-time faculty.  We offer Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral programs in Statistics & Actuarial Science and numerous joint programs with other departments.  The Department offers a vibrant research environment for a wide range of areas including foundations of statistics, analysis of longitudinal and life history data, computational inference, finance, risk management, ruin theory, survey methods, industrial statistics, and interdisciplinary collaborative work.  The Department benefits from close relationships with several research groups on campus including WATRISQ, the Business and Industrial Research Group, the PROPEL Centre for Population Health Impact, the Centre for Computational Mathematics in Industry and Commerce, the Survey Research Centre, and many others. The Department is also home to over 900 undergraduate students and about 150 graduate students in programs including Actuarial Science, Biostatistics, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, and Statistics-Computing.

The department is located on University of Waterloo main campus, which is located at the heart of Canada's Technology Triangle about 100 kilometers west of Toronto.