The Statistics department is tasked with: promoting the production, development, and dissemination of knowledge, as well as training Communication professionals in their respective fields of action; proposing policies to be pursued in the areas of initial and further training, applied research, cultural extension, and services to the community; promoting and supporting the development of applied research projects in interdisciplinary programs.

The departments are scientific-pedagogical bodies of initial, continuous, and specialized training; research; services provided to the community; and dissemination of knowledge in the various scientific fields in which the ESCS subjects are organized. The departments manage the activities pertaining to the subjects of a single scientific area. Each department has a coordinator, elected by the lecturers who make it up.