Welcome to the Mbeya University of Science and Technology Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), one of the core academic units of the College of Information and Communication Technology (CoICT). The department’s core mission is to provide quality teaching, research and consultancy in its core disciplines of Computer Science and Computer Engineering.

CSE being the full-fledged department has academic and technical staff members with a broad range of high technical qualifications, experience and competencies. Apart from proving academic and professional training excellences, the department also for many years has engaged itself in providing research and consultancy services within its specialization areas of Software Architecture and Engineering and Embedded and Intelligent Systems.

The Department offers various training programmes at different levels from Certificate, Diploma to Ph.D levels in Computer Science, Data Science and Computer Engineering disciplines. Our degree programmes help students become outstanding professionals, prepared to impact all manner of modern society through the application of cutting edge information technology. The theoretical and practical learning and teaching is provided using the available computing laboratories and infrastructure equipped with modern facilities connected to the reliable Internet connection. The Department also participates in the national wide internship programmes to enable the students to gain experience from the industry. The students participate in the practical training internships where they are attached to work for many ICT companies in the country. The department encourages internships as a great complement to formal class learning. 

The quality of curricular and teaching of Bachelor degree programmes is evident by the fact that many of our graduates have become successful ICT entrepreneurs and others have successfully pursued MSc. and PhD training programmes at internationally recognized universities abroad and at home.