The Department of Information and Communication Technology was established along with the establishment of the Faculty of Technological Studies in the January, 2020. In line with the mission of the Faculty, the Department attempts for excellence in the field of Information Communication Technology through innovation and dissemination of knowledge and capacity building for socio-economic development of the nation.
The department contributes to the Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology Honours (BICTHons) degree Programme offered by the Faculty of Technological Studies. The ICT Department aims to cater to this demand by producing multidisciplinary ICT professionals. The prospective undergraduates are selected through the newly introduced Technology stream to the G.C.E. Advanced Level examination. In the degree programme students are exposed to multidisciplinary curricula including mini projects, internshipindustrial training, and a final year research project to improve variety of ICT skills and other required skills to make them well-rounded ICT professionals. The curriculum of the degree BICT degree program has been developed in line with the UGC instruction. This degree program is designed based on the “Degree Specialization and Course Module Guidelines of CSSL with the vision of fulfilling the gap between the industrial requirements and the competencies of graduates with more focus on applications of modern technologies in Information and Communication Technology.
The department strives to produce well-rounded graduates with a greater competing potential in the IT industry as engineers, managers, administrators, entrepreneurs and technical level workers. The prospective graduates could cope with the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) that rely on smart technology. The department possess qualified academics in conjunction with well-equipped laboratory facilities to cater the undergraduates with the theoretical as well as practical knowledge of the emerging sophisticated technologies