It offers specializations in actuarial sciences (finance and insurance), biostatistics as well as industry and services.

Founded in 1922 by the mathematician Émile Borel, it is the oldest and one of the most prestigious schools for statistics in France.

At the end of the Great War, Émile Borel, one of the greatest mathematicians of his time, was appointed to the Chair of Probability and Mathematical Physics at the University of Paris.

So at this time, there is almost no teaching of statistics and the idea of applying mathematics to any specific field arouses contempt "real" mathematicians.

During the thirty years that followed, under the leadership of mathematical leaders, ISUP will initiate the introduction in France, the teaching of statistics and industrial applications, management or Operational Research.