The Computer Science and Engineering department was recognized as Research Centre for the Ph.D. program in 2002 by the VTU.
The CS&E department offers a PG study leading to the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering. The Ph.D. degree is awarded for the research that gives a great contribution to the areas of computer engineering or computer science, demonstrated theory and scholarly excellence in study. The Ph.D. program requires a research and concentration of study in specific areas of CS&E. A student should enter into the Ph.D. program with huge knowledge of data structures, high-level programming languages, computer organization, real-time programming, operating systems, formal languages and computer systems design; however, by taking the appropriate course it may be possible to overcome minor difficulties after the admission.