Delhi College of Engineering started a B.E. in Information Technology from academic session 2002-2003 with an intake of 60 students. Department offers mainly undergraduate program. Emphasis of B.E. Information Technology is to equip students with the fundamental concepts and tools related to information technology. The Department is running a project entitled 'Information Security Education and Awareness' initiated by the Department of Information Technology (DIT) and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Govt. of India. Information Security awareness programs have been organized in different esteemed Schools and Institutes. In addition, the department has conducted recently a two-day National Seminar on 'Information Security'. Further, the department plans to start a M.E. degree level program in the area of Information Science and Security.
The department has set up state-of-art laboratories for RF engineering & Web Engineering in addition to the other laboratories. Future plans for the advancement and expansion of the research in the areas of Information Security, computer networks, optical communication and knowledge discovery in databases shall be undertaken.