Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) was founded in the year 1931 by Professor P.C.Mahalanobis in Kolkata. This academic institute is of national significance and is recognized by an act of the Indian Parliament in the year 1959. ISI strives to support, lead, and promote the development, understanding, and good practice of statistics across the globe by providing a primary network for statistics worldwide. ISI offers students with knowledge and research along with the applications in the field of Statistics in the Social and Natural Sciences.
The headquarters of ISI is located in Kolkata and has additional centers in Delhi, Chennai, Banglore, and Tezpur. Indian Statistical Institute conducts various under-graduate, post-graduate, and doctoral programs. Apart from these mainstream courses, the institute also offers diplomas, short-term courses, Certificate Programs, Internships, and training programs. ISI admission for degree courses requires candidates to go through written entrance exams and interviews. These written tests are conducted at various exam centers across the nation. Indian Statistical Institute also facilitates research, development, and consultancy activities which are organized into seven broad divisions such as Applied Statistics, Statistics and Mathematics, Social Science, Biological Sciences, Computer, and Communication Sciences, Physics and Earth Sciences, and SQC & OR. Indian Statistical Institute recruitments take place through advertisements that are published n leading newspapers as well as those posted on their official website.