The Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering was given the status of a separate department in 1983, after the bifurcation of the Electrical Engineering department. Since inception, it has grown in stature to be ranked amongst the best in the country. The Department currently offers a B.Tech in computer science and Engineering, M.Tech in Computer Science and Technology, M.Tech in Information Technology, M.C.A, M.Sc. in Computer Science, M.Sc in Information Systems and Ph.D Programme in Computer Science.  

      The Courses offered in the department meet the requirements of both industry and research. The curriculum is designed to train the students in developing application programs (Software) and also designing and developing  computing systems (Hardware).
      
      The faculty of the Department is actively engaged in research in the areas of VLSI testing, ROBOTICS, Artificial Intelligence, Data & Knowledge Management, Software Engineering, Image Processing, Theoretical Computer Science , Cryptography, Algorithms and Graphics, Bio-informatics and Data Ware Housing & Data Mining.
    
      The  faculty members are collaborating with institutions like Center for Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, Bangalore; National Ship Design research Center, Visakhapatnam, Naval Science & Technological Lab, Visakhapatnam, National Jiao Tong University, china for research.