The Combined Major Bachelor of Science Degree Programmes are for students who take Statistics as a major with any other subject major from the Faculty of Science.
Special Regulations for the Combined Major Bachelor of Science in Statistics Degree.
Subject to the General Academic Regulations 000 and 100, the following Special Departmental Regulations shall apply:
Students possessing an Ordinary Level pass with grade C or better in Mathematics, or an additional Mathematics paper are eligible for direct entry admission to the Diploma Programme; those who have a credit of C or better in the extended Mathematics option for BGCSE are also eligible for admission.
The Graduate Level courses in the Department of Statistics will be guided by the following Departmental Special Regulations:
1.2.1 Unless otherwise stated, each course is normally 3 credits.
Unless otherwise specified under the following special regulations, the general university regulations 50 shall apply were appropriate. However, should a conflict in interpretation of both regulations exist, these Special Departmental Regulations shall apply.
1.1.1 The normal minimum entrance qualifications for a Master of Philosophy shall be a Master Degree in Statistics.
The Single Major Bachelor of Science Programme can be taken by students from the Faculty of Science as well as students from the Faculty of Social Sciences or any other faculty, provided they satisfy the requirements outlined below.
Subject to General Regulation 20.00 and the relevant Faculty of Science Special Regulations, the following Department of Statistics Special Regulations shall apply:
1. Entrance requirements are subject to the Faculty General Regulations.
2 . Students who have passed the Diploma in Statistics Examination of this University or who possess the
equivalent qualification can be admitted to Semester 5 of the Programme.
The Department of Statistics came into existence at the Botswana Campus of the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (UBLS) in 1972, in order to meet the need of producing professionally qualified manpower in the field of statistics.