Department of

Computer and Information Technology

Chair of Department's Message

The CIT department focuses on creating an environment of Innovation, where students and faculty get a platform to practice and demonstrate incredible problem-solving abilities for various issues within our society. The department has highly skilled faculty members in various areas of ICT, who provide one-on-one attention to students within the classrooms, practical lab work and the implementation of real-life solutions using ICT. The department aims to produce highly competent and disciplined students, who are skilled in specific areas of ICT such as Computer Programming, Mobile Programming, Web Development, Databases, Systems Architecture, and Network Engineers, among others. This is achieved by providing areas of concentration that address the specific areas in our programs. Besides the normal course curriculum, the department organizes short courses in the form of boot camps to train students on new technologies and trends in ICT. Most of these short courses are sponsored by our partners and therefore availed for free to the students.

Every year, the department runs an annual Design Thinking workshop themed ‘Impact Week’ in collaboration with our partners from Kirche in Aktion – Germany. The focus is to develop practical solutions for sustainable development through innovation. Through this event, leading Design Thinking coaches from SAP, Lufthansa, and Volvo, among other leading organizations in Germany, Australia, and Switzerland.

The CIT department has formed strong partnerships with local and international companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Dell EMC, and Seven Seas, among others to ensure that students are exposed to global technologies, enabling them to experience a world-class ICT training, and have access to global career opportunities. Our alumni have excelled as entrepreneurs in the business and IT sector, as well as in the corporate sector, both locally and internationally.

The Innovation Center hosted by the CIT department enables students to develop innovations in a guided and professional way. The students are given local and international mentors for their ideas and support in marketing their ideas and selling them to the local and international markets.

Why Us

We provide our students with a platform to become innovative through specific skills development in our courses and extra short courses such as boot camps.
Our Innovation Center enables students to implement their ideas into large-scale projects that are implemented locally and internationally.
Our lecturers are skilled in current ICT areas and provide one-on-one teaching and mentorship to students.
Our pool of local and international partners provides opportunities for students to interact with local and international experts on specific areas of ICT.
Our excellent ICT infrastructure such as the internet all over the campus (classrooms, hostels, cafeterias, student centre and relaxation grounds) keeps the students connected throughout.
We work closely with our alumni to mentor students and provide internship and job opportunities. Our alumni are well-spread in leading local, continental and global organizations such as Google, the United Nations and the World Bank.

Accreditations Networks and Affiliations of the school / department

We have formed partnerships with the following organizations that provide training, career and research opportunities to our students, alumni and lecturers:-