The Computer Science Program at Kent State is designed to meet the demand for state of the art computer scientists in industry, government and education. There are substantial job opportunities in Northeast Ohio, elsewhere in Ohio, and the country at large for our graduates. Our curriculum is modified, enhanced and updated regularly as we introduce new courses to reflect current topics in this fast changing discipline.

The Department offers Computer Science degrees at the Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D. level. The faculty believes in a strong advising approach at all levels. Advisors help the students choose the appropriate program according to their goals, needs and interests. The Computer Science Department includes two large general purpose computer laboratories, an instructional laboratory, an Internet Teaching Laboratory, and a systems administration laboratory, in addition to a number of research labs devoted to research activities in distributed and parallel processing, hardware/software codesign, networking and internetworking research, operating systems, and distributed scientific computing and visualization.

The Department of Computer Science was created in 2001. The Computer Science program at Kent State, which was previously housed in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, has been granting doctoral degrees in Computer Science since 1986.