Facilities

Tennessee State University is among the top 50 most wired universities.

All offices, dormitory rooms and most of the classrooms are connected to the Internet through a local area network. The Communications and Information Technology (CIT) department is responsible for communications, management, establishment, support and maintenance of computer labs and many other related tasks.

Software & Hardware Labs

The CS Department has access to a number of Software and Hardware Labs. The department's newest lab is the Robotics and Intelligent Systems Lab. This lab is located in Holland Hall. The majority of Software Labs are located in McCord Hall, where the department is housed.

Software Labs located in McCord Hall

In addition to the above labs, the CS Department has access to many labs especially the hardware labs that are located in the College of Engineering, Technology, and Computer Science.

Computer Labs

The main computing components consist of the software that are installed on computers in different computer labs. Some of these software are listed below.

•  MS Visual Studio .NET. This package contains compilers for major programming languages. Some of the languages are Visual Basic, C, C++ and C#.
• C# (C Sharp) is the programming language that is used for teaching programming courses in the CS core courses.
• Compilers for other programming languages, such as COBOL, FORTRAN, and PASCAL are also available.
• Sun Microsystems java programming language
• MS Office XP
• Mathematica
• SAS
• SPSS
• DB2
• ORACLE
• AUTOCAD
• VISIO
• A large number of Open-Source software packages that are used by individual faculty members.