The Cochin University Of Science And Technology established the Department Of Computer Applications to facilitate research and human resources development in the subject.

The Department offers Masters' programme in Computer Applications (M.C.A).

M.C.A programme

The M.C.A programme curriculum prepared jointly by ISTE and the Department of Electronics with minor modifications.

No. of Seats-

Full Time Regular - 30
Full Time Cost Sharing - 30

Lateral Entry to third semester - 20% of the total seats of MCA Programme plus vacant seats, if any

Eligibility Criteria –

Any Science Graduate with Mathematics as one of the main or subsidiary subjects or graduate in Electronics/ IT/ Computer Science/ Computer Applications / Engineering / Technology with aggregate 55% marks in all subjects other than languages and humanities

Course structure-

Semester I

Course Code Paper
CAS2101 Data Structures and Algorithms
CAS2102 Programming in C
CAS2103 Computer Organization
CAS2104 System Software
CAS2105 Computer Graphics
CAS2106 C Programming LAB

Semester II

Course Code Paper
CAS2201 Data Base Management Systems
CAS2202 Object Oriented Programming with C++
CAS2203 Operating System
CAS2204 Discrete Structures and Graph Theory
CAS2205 Elective I
CAS2206 C++ Programming LAB

Semester III

Course Code Paper
CAS2301 Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms
CAS2302 Principles of Programming Languages
CAS2303 Software Engineering
CAS2304 Elective II
CAS2305 Elective III
CAS2306 Data Structures LAB

Semester IV

Course Code Paper
CAS2401 Networks and Data Communications
CAS2402 Applied Numerical Techniques
CAS2403 Elective IV
CAS2404 Elective V
CAS2405 Mini Project Work
CAS2406 Network Programming and Internet LAB

Semester V

Course Code Paper
CAS2501 Simulation and Modelling
CAS2502 Elective VI
CAS2503 Elective VII
CAS2504 Elective VIII
CAS2505 Elective IX
CAS2506 Seminar

Semester VI

Course Code Paper
CAS2601 Project Work and Viva-Voce

List of Electives-

ELECTIVE I
E1 - Number Theory
E2 - Number Theory and Cryptography
E3 - Applied Probability and Statistics
E4 - Web Commerce Technologies
E5 - Multimedia System Design
E6 - JAVA Programming
ELECTIVE II & III
E7 - Digital Electronics
E8 - Object Oriented Design
E9 - Advanced Java Programming #
E10 - Web Enabled JAVA Programming#
E11 - Operations Research
ELECTIVE IV& V
E12 - Advanced JAVA Mobile Programming
E13 - Visual Programming VB.NET
E14 - AndroidApplication Programming
E15 - Web Application Design using PHP
E16 - Security in computing
E17 - Software Project Management
E18 - Cryptography and Network Security
E19 - Intelligent Systems
E20 - Digital Image Processing
ELECTIVE VI
E21 - Artificial Intelligence
E22 - Data Mining
E23 - Theory of Computation
ELECTIVE VII
E24 - Software Quality
E25 - Wireless Security*
E26 - Natural Language Processing
ELECTIVE VIII
E27 - Object Oriented Software Engineering*
E28 - Secure Software Engineering*
E29 - Security threats and Vulnerabilities *
E30 - Artificial Neural Networks
ELECTIVE IX
E31 - Software Testing
E32 - Steganography and Digital water marking
E33 - Speech and audio processing

Contact-

CUSAT Kochi
Thrikkakara, South Kalamassery, Kochi, Kerala 682022