Department of Computer Science (University of Toronto)

Department of Computer Science
Bahen Centre at the University of Toronto. Most of the department is housed in this building
Type	Academic department
Parent institution	Faculty of Arts and Science
Academic affiliation	University of Toronto
Location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Website	web.cs.toronto.edu

The Department of Computer Science (DCS) at the University of Toronto is an administrative unit within the Faculty of Arts and Science. Established on 1 July 1964, the department is currently one of the highest ranked computer science departments in the world, placing first amongst Canadian universities and tenth worldwide. The department offers undergraduate and postgraduate education. Undergraduates receive a Honours Bachelors in Science upon graduation.

The department currently has 68 faculty members. As of February 2011, 800 undergraduate students are enrolled in a University of Toronto subject POSt sponsored by the department.

The current Chair of the Department is Ravin Balakrishnan and the Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies is François Pitt.

The department's predecessor, The Computation Centre, was formed in 1952. Shortly after its formation, it housed FERUT, the first electronic computer in Canada. The Computation Centre was renamed to the Institute for Computer Science in 1962, before being absorbed by the newly created Department of Computer Science in 1964. The new department, with only six faculty members and four graduate students, had Canada's only computer science doctorate program at the time.

An undergraduate program was introduced in 1971.

The department became an administrative unit in the Faculty of Arts and Science in 1981.

The field of Computer Science at the University of Toronto consistently ranks among the highest in the world. In the 2008 ranking by field and by individual subject published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University the University of Toronto finished 8th in the world in the subject of Computer Science. The 2012 QS World University Rankings the University of Toronto was ranked 11th under the subject of Computer Science.

The department has 11 research groups: