First-year courses are taught with PBL model in Department of Statistics at DEU. As a result of the evaluation of Torrence Test of Creative Thinking Verbal A-B Form applied in the process of PBL, there brings into view that the teaching method in use increases the creative thinking ability of the students. At the end of the PBL process, it is shown that the students can identify and solve the problems with their own ideas and abilities and develop their creative thinking, one of the high-level thinking skills.