The School of Mathematics and Statistics was founded in June 2023, formerly known as the Department of Mathematics in the School of Science of Hainan University, with its predecessor of the Public Mathematics Teaching and Research Department established in 1983 at the beginning of Hainan University.The school adheres to the motto of "Embracing all rivers, achieving grand goals on the righteous path" and carries forward the school spirit of "self-reliance and self-improvement, seeking truth and beauty".

There are 68 teaching staff in the school, including 63 full-time teachers, 34 of whom are with associate senior titles or above, and 35 of whom have the titles of provincial and ministerial level and above, including candidates of the National Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talents Program, experts receiving the State Council's special governmental allowance, experts of Hainan Province's "515 Talents Program", leading talents of Hainan Province, and Famous Teachers of South China Sea of Hainan Province, etc.Among them, one is a candidate of the National Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talents Program, one is an expert receiving special government allowance of the State Council, three experts of the "515 Talents Program" of Hainan Province, three leading talents of Hainan Province, and eight talents of category D and above of Hainan Province.

The School of Mathematics and Statistics now has a full-time undergraduate program in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, a base class for training top talents in basic disciplines (mathematics), and a master program for the first-level discipline of mathematics. The School of Mathematics established the undergraduate program of Information and Computing Science in 2001 and the undergraduate program of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics in 2006. It was selected as a "National First-class Undergraduate Program Construction Site" in 2019, the master program for secondary discipline of Applied Mathematics was established in 2006, and the master program for first-level discipline of Mathematics was established in 2017. The School of Mathematics and Statistics is based on Hainan Free Trade Port and aims to serve the scientific and technological infrastructure construction of the Free Trade Port. It has formed a number of research directions in algebra, graph theory, optimization, uncertainty theory, stochastic dynamical systems, bioinformatics, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and differential equations, which cover the directions of pure mathematics, applied mathematics, operations research and cybernetics, and computational mathematics.

The School of Mathematics and Statistics is a co-founded unit of Tianyuan Southeast Mathematics Center, which owns the Key Laboratory of Engineering Modeling and Statistical Computing of Hainan Province, the Academician Workstation of Hainan Province, and the first batch of "Double Hundred" Talent Teams of Hainan Province.In the past five years, it has hosted 22 projects supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, 26 research projects at provincial and ministerial levels, published more than 200 SCI-indexed papers, and spent more than 9 million RMB on research.It won three scientific and technological progress awards in Hainan Province.In the past five years, the university has hosted 4 academic conferences and invited nearly 100 famous experts from home and abroad to conduct academic exchanges in the university.It has introduced senior talents such as Prof. Alexander Makhnev, Corresponding Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences, making positive contributions to the construction of disciplines in the School of Mathematics and Statistics.