Conceived in 1973 with the acquisition of an IBM System/370 (one of the most powerful computers in India at that time), the Department of Computer Science and Engineering now offers several attractive industry-sponsored Fellowships for outstanding PhD scholars, as well as support for participation in top-ranking international conferences. According to a 2014 Brown University study, IIT Madras was the fifth largest contributor of faculty members to computer science programs in U.S universities, including MIT, Stanford and Yale.
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
9
Staff
35
Faculty
252
Undergraduate Students
193
Postgraduate Students
79
M S Research Scholars
98
PhD Research Scholars
1
Exchange Students
1,155
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About the Department
Message From the Head of Department
Welcome to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Madras. IIT Madras was ranked first amongst several other similar Research and Teaching institutions in Engineering, for the continuous seventh time in the 2022 edition of National Institute Ranking Framework established by the Ministry for Human Resources Development (MHRD), the Government of India. IIT Madras was ranked amongst the top 50 Asian Universities in the QS rankings 2018. The Department started as the Computer Centre in 1973 with the acquisition of an IBM 370 Computer. It presently offers B.Tech., dual-degree B.Tech./M.Tech., M.Tech., M.S., Ph.D. degree programmes. A dual-degree B.Tech/M.Tech. program in data science, open to all B.Tech. students of IIT Madras, has been started from January 2018.