One of India’s earliest university-level CS departments — shaping generations of computer scientists since 1980 through rigorous academics, cutting-edge research, and strong industry connect.
In 1980, when the word “IT” didn’t exist, the Department of Computer Science at Savitribai Phule Pune University became one of the first university-level CS departments in India. What started as a one-year B.Sc. programme grew into a full postgraduate and doctoral research centre.
PUCSD believes that Computer Science is a science — not just software. The department maintains a 24×7 computing environment and a near-zero divide between theory and practice.
Read our full story →Among India’s first university-level CS programmes — before “IT” was even a word.
Master of Computer Applications launched to address growing industry demand.
Research-oriented postgraduate programme for advanced specialisation.
Upgraded to a full two-year M.Sc. programme.
New Education Policy aligned syllabi adopted across all programmes.
Rigorous scientific CS education with advanced algorithms, AI, machine learning, and a research dissertation. NEP 2020 aligned.
Industry-focused programme covering software development, cloud computing, AI, and data science with major project component.
Deep learning, reinforcement learning, knowledge representation, and intelligent systems.
SDN, cloud computing, edge computing, IoT architecture, and performance optimisation.
Big data, data mining, graph analytics, and statistical ML on real-world datasets.
Intrusion detection, privacy-preserving computation, and digital forensics research.
Indian language NLP, sentiment analysis, machine translation, and LLM evaluation.
Online applications through the official PUCSD portal.
AdmissionsDownload updated curriculum from the Syllabus page.
AcademicTwo-day intensive workshop open to all PG students.
Upcoming EventFederated learning research with privacy preservation.
ResearchFour decades of excellence — in numbers