The Department of Mathematics and Statistics is one of the largest departments on campus, with 46 tenure-track faculty slots and about 92 graduate students that are supported full-time as graduate teaching assistants or research assistants. The department awarded its first master's degree in 1930 and since then over 850 master's degrees have been awarded. The Ph.D. program was approved in 1965 and the first doctorate was awarded in 1967. As of August 2009, the department had awarded 167 Ph.D.s.
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics offers a Master of Arts Degree in Mathematics, Master of Science Degrees in both Mathematics and Statistics, a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Mathematics, and a Graduate Certificate in Mathematics.