The Information and Communication Technology Stream was established in April 2016 in the Faculty of Applied Science of the Vavuniya Campus of the University of Jaffna by the Ministry of Higher Education on the recommendation of the UGC for the purpose of designing and offering a degree programme in Information and Communication Technology to those students who follow the Technology Stream at the advanced level. Currently, around 600 students are enrolled to the Vavuniya Campus by the UGC per an academic year. Early, the BICT degree programme is conducted under Department of Physical Science, Faculty of Applied Science. Then gradually a department is initiated as Department of Information and Communication Technology under Faculty of Technological Studies in 2020. Its offering of academic programme namely Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology, with the revisions of the syllabi in regular intervals, improvements of the laboratory facilities and strengthened human resources.

Department of ICT offers the following degree programme:

• Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology (Honours).