The department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) was established in the year 2001 and has permanent affiliation to Anna University. The department has fully committed and research-oriented faculty members to update the skill set of students with recent trends in computing. The department strives to prepare young minds for the challenging opportunities in the IT industry through value-added courses. The department enables student access to latest computing devices and software applications, thereby bridging the gap between theory and practical. The department maintains an excellent interaction with IT industry and organizes regular guest lectures by experts, industrial visits, internships etc. and stands for industry - Institute collaboration. The placement and training team facilitates the students to pursue their career as software developer / network administrator / database administrator, etc.

Students are given proper exposure to current trends including embedded system design, network management and administration, bio-informatics, extreme programming, software architecture, sensor networks, grid computing, soft computing etc. through workshops, guest lectures, seminars by industry experts, professionals etc Department has well equipped laboratories with high speed internet facilities. Department also offer many value added educational programs to the students including industry Certification like CCNA, Sun Java, RedHat Linux Certification, etc. The department admits about 60 students every year in the B.E program.