University of Tartu's Institute of Computer Science hosts 600 students across a range of Bachelors, Masters and doctoral curricula. The Institute's mission is to deliver world-class computer science education that is both relevant in practice and grounded on rigorous conceptual foundations.

On the research front, the institute is active in the fields of bioinformatics and data mining, natural language processing, information security and cryptography, programming languages, distributed systems, and software engineering. Members of the institute are partners in more than a dozen national and EU research projects.

The Institute is a partner in the Estonian Center of Excellence in Computer Science and the Software Technology and Applications Competence Centre — an R&D centre that conducts industry-driven research projects in the fields of software engineering and data mining.