About the Department
The related BCA Department has started its journey during the period of University College under NBU with BCA Program. Though after the functioning of Raiganj University, in the year 2016 Honorable Vice Chancellor Prof. (Dr.) Anil Bhuimali has (during the Headship of Dr. Ashoke Das) initiated to start a PG Program/ Department in the area of Computing & Informatics and thereafter respected members and Chair of the Departmental Committee has accepted the proposal of Dr. P.K. Paul regarding establishing an interdisciplinary and new skill based Departmental nomenclature with the name of Department of Computer and Information Science (Since 09-11-2016).
The nomenclature of the Department ‘CIS’ has started to keep the expertise and academic affairs much broader and working and merging related subjects (such as Computing, Computer Science, Information Science, Informatics, IT, ICT and also other hand allied domain based IS/IT subjects e.g. Health Information Science, Quantum Information Science, Library Information Science, Geo Information Science). Moreover university has followed international and contemporary style of academic dealing and as a result MSc-Computer & Information Science program has been started from 2016. The main agenda of the Department is to produce not only scientific thoughts among its students but also prepare them for the industry and for that Applied curriculum has been adopted in the line of the universities, aboard. Hence the Department of CIS is following the style of iSchools (that practiced globally, in recent past) academic attributes in their agenda for promoting interdisciplinary research and industrial products.
In the year 2018 Department also started its one of its kind and interdisciplinary program M.Phil. & Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science (CIS) with specialization in Business Informatics & Social Informatics. Further, since 2018 Department also started BCA Evening/ Self Financed program. As the department holds broad objective and subject areas therefore from the year 2019 Computer Science programs also started under the Headship of Prof. K.S. Tiwary with the degrees B.Sc. (H) in Computer Science and also M.Sc. Computer Science; as a result based on subject and Division the Department holds following—
Moreover, since the Department holds a ‘school’ type of nature therefore in near future also it is interested to offer more interdisciplinary and skill based Information Sciences and Computing programs with different level of education.