The Department of Computer Science at the University of Kentucky was founded in 1966 and is among the oldest Computer Science departments in the country. Until 1994, the Department was a part of the College of Arts and Sciences. In July 1994, the Department moved to the College of Engineering.
The Department has 22 faculty members committed to excellence in education, research, and service. The Department offers BS, MS, and PhD degrees. It has about 200 undergraduate and over 150 graduate students.
The Department has a strong research program in artificial intelligence, database systems, operating systems, distributed computing, computer networks, computer vision and graphics, numerical analysis, information-based complexity, cryptography, algorithms and complexity.
The Department and the University provide state-of-the-art research computing facilities and excellent instructional computer labs.