Currently the Department employs nine fulltime academics, several part-time lecturers, two fulltime administrative staff and numerous student assistants. Student enrollment continues to increase with the bulk of the students enrolled for introductory service level courses in Statistics. Joint collaborative research with other NMMU Departments continues to grow with numerous post-graduate supervision/co-supervision projects. Finally, the Department continues to provide post-graduate research programmes in Mathematical Statistics with one PhD candidate and five Masters candidates enrolled for this year.