The Department of Statistics at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics was established in 1946, making it one of the earliest institutions in China to establish a statistics discipline. In June 2009, it was renamed the School of Statistics and Management. In 1981, this department was approved by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council to become one of the first national master's degree granting points in statistics, and began to enroll graduate students in applied statistics that same year; in 1986, this department was approved by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council to become one of the first national doctoral degree granting points in statistics; in 1996, this department was again approved by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council to become one of the first national postdoctoral research stations in statistics; in 1997, this department was recognized as a key discipline in statistics by the Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China. In recent years, our school has made significant progress in discipline construction and has successively achieved:

Key Disciplines of Shanghai City (2007)

First batch of national applied statistics master's programs (2011)

The first batch of doctoral and master's degree granting institutions for the first-level discipline of Statistics in the country (2011)

Construction Plan for First-Class Disciplines (Category B) in Universities of Shanghai (2011)

Postdoctoral Research Station of First-Level Discipline in Statistics (2012)

Ranked 4th in the national assessment of first-level disciplines by the Ministry of Education (2012)

Shanghai Municipal Universities First-Class Discipline (Category A) Construction Plan (2013)

National Application Statistics Professional Master's Evaluation, our college ranks among the top (2015)

Statistics selected for the list of world-class disciplines (2017)

Statistical Science Selected as a National First-Class Undergraduate Major Construction Point (2020)

Economics Statistics has been selected as a national first-class undergraduate program construction point, and Data Science and Big Data Technology has been selected as a provincial first-class undergraduate program construction point (2022).