The college of computer science of  Yangtz University was established in 2003. The college now has a master's degree authorization point in computer science and technology and a master's degree point in electronic information. The college has five undergraduate majors: Computer Science and technology, network engineering, software engineering, Internet of things engineering and information security. Computer science and technology  is the key subject (characteristic subject) in the 12th Five Year Plan of Hubei Province and the supporting subject of the characteristic subject group in the 14th Five Year Plan of Hubei Province; Computer science and technology, network engineering and software engineering are the first-class majors in Hubei Province; The network engineering teaching team is a provincial teaching team; The teaching and Research Office of computer science and technology is a provincial grass-roots teaching organization.

The college has three research institutions, namely, the Institute of resource information application technology of Yangtz University built with Beijing Jurassic Software Co., Ltd , the Institute of reservoir information of Yangtz University and the Institute of logging technology jointly built with Jingpeng Software Group Co., Ltd. The college has a big data application technology research team, an Internet of things intelligent application technology team, a network security research team and a graphics and image technology research team. At present, there are 103 teaching staff in the college, including 10 with senior titles and 42 with deputy senior titles; There are 25 doctoral teachers, 66 master's teachers and 5 doctoral students; There are 28 full-time masters tutors.

The college has two experimental centers jointly built by the central and local governments, including computer experimental teaching center and interactive multimedia experimental center, with hardware technology laboratory, embedded system laboratory, software engineering laboratory, network engineering laboratory, Virtual Reality Laboratory, mobile Internet Laboratory, information security laboratory and cloud computing and big data laboratory, which can meet the needs of teaching experiments, curriculum design Graduation design and other teaching requirements and the basic needs of teachers engaged in scientific research. The college has built an intelligent cluster computing platform and storage platform, and is building an artificial intelligence research, innovation and entrepreneurship platform with iFLYTEK. Through the construction of laboratory and discipline platform, the college has formed distinctive research directions in computer detection and control, embedded system, database technology and application, big data and artificial intelligence, network technology and information security, petroleum application software development, reservoir and resource information processing.