Computer Science

Welcome to the Department of Computer Science located in the University of Ibadan, the Premier Institution in Nigeria. The department was established in 1974 and was conceived as a means of training manpower to meet the demand for increasing computerization. The department trains students to create, adapt and manage computation tools that meet basic goals of correctness, efficiency, security, user-friendliness, fault-tolerance and intelligence.

We currently offer B.Sc, M.Sc, M.C.S, MPhil and PhD in Computer Science with options in Software Engineering, Data Mining, Mobile Agent, Knowledge Discovery, System Modelling – Annotation, Economic Intelligence and Internet Security

The department presently has 21 academic staff, 9 non- academic staff and has graduated over 2000 plus students at the first degree level with 8 PhDs and more than 400 Masters students. The department is located along Africanus Horton Road beside Chemistry Department and just behind the Department of Geology.

The departmental academic staffs are dedicated, effective and committed to teaching computer science at the University level. Both undergraduate and Postgraduate classes are backed up by demonstrations and a strong practical content which makes the classes very effective. We have well equipped computer science laboratories and research laboratory.