April 29, 2025
2025 Distinguished Engineers Awards Recipients Announced
The Edward E. Whitacre College of Engineering celebrates esteemed alumni with the Distinguished Engineer Awards.
Welcome to the
Department of Computer Science
Fast Facts
$127K/yr.
Median Salary For Software Developers per U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Graduates Hired By
Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, and many other high-tech companies
1,010 Students
451 undergraduate majors and 559 graduate students including 476 Master and 83 Ph.D. students as of Fall 2024, the largest of the seven departments in the WCOE
Research Areas
AdVanced Empirical Software Testing and Analysis (AVESTA)
Conducts research in software testing, empirical software engineering, and application of statistical analysis to program analysis
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Center for the Science and Engineering of Cyber Security
The objective of the center is to study principles of Cyber Security, how to measure, assess and enforce security in legacy systems, and how to build new systems that are secured.
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Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Laboratory (DISCL)
The Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Laboratory (DISCL) has broad research interests in various areas with a focus on building scalable computing systems for data-intensive applications in high-performance scientific computing/high-end enterprise computing.
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TTU Wireless Mobile Networking Laboratory (T2WISTOR)
In the TTU Wireless Mobile Networking Laboratory (T2WISTOR), we are conducting research in the areas of Green Networking, Mobile Data Management, Embedded Networked Systems, and Mobile Software.
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Department News
March 06, 2025
Board of Regents Approves Faculty Promotions and Emeritus Status
Texas Tech University Board of Regents approved several faculty promotions across the college
Advancing Robot Learning: Assistant Professor's Research Accepted at ICRA 2024
Assistant Professor has had two research papers on robot learning accepted at ICRA 2024
Computer Science Assistant Professor Catches Security Risks in Systems/Hardware
Through research, Zihao Zhan and his colleagues detect and recommend fixes for security issues in newly released technology like the Apple Vision Pro headset.
Earn Your Master's Degree In
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Mold the future of the computer science industry.
What kind of jobs can I get?
Students in our program go on to get jobs such as:
• Software Engineer
• Software Developer
• Computer Scientist
• Web/Mobile App Developer
• Data Scientist Engineer
• Cybersecurity Engineer
• IT Systems Administrators
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Department of Computer Science
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Address
Texas Tech University, Box 43104 | Lubbock, TX 79409-3104 -
Phone
806.742.3527 -
Email
cs@ttu.edu