The Department of Computer Science & Information Technology under the aegis of the School of Basic & Applied Sciences was established in the year 2012. The Department is well equipped with state-of-the-art laboratories of all major domains of Computer Science and Information Technology with excellent internet, servers, hardware and software support like Videoconferencing etc. Our Alumni are pursuing higher studies in most reputed Universities and Institutes. The Department has a team of highly qualified and experience faculty members with varied field of research areas. The Department of Computer Science & Information Technology makes an ongoing effort to establish and maintain a learning environment that supports the best possible levels of both teaching and research.

The Department is equally active in research with many quality publications each year in IEEE, Science Direct, ACM, Springer, Wiley etc. The objective is to create human resources who have a solid understanding about the aspects of theoretical, systematic, and application components of Computer Science. Different scholarships/fellowships are also available for the deserving students of the Central University of Jammu.

Keeping in the view the research output, market scenario and industry requirements the Department started offering M.Tech. (Computer Science & Technology) programme with an intake of 24 seats and discontinued the Integrated M.Sc.(Computer Science). -MCA programme from the session 2016-17. The M.Tech. programme has been approved by AICTE from the session 2017-18. The Department has also started Ph.D. research programme from the academic session 2016-17. Faculty members of the Department have specialized areas for advanced studies and research in Software Engineering, Wireless Sensor Networks, Computer Networks, Database and Data Mining, Natural Language Processing, Information and Cyber Security, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, Robotics and Simulation & Modeling. The Department is well equipped with state-of-the-art laboratories of all major domains of Computer Science and Information Technology with excellent internet, servers, hardware and software support. Students of the Department get selected for higher studies in most reputed Universities and Institutes. The Department is equally active in research with many quality publications each year in IEEE, Sciencedirect, ACM, Springer, Wiley etc.