The increased demand for the computer in modern development and technology results in a huge need for specials in this field. Because of this need for national human resources in computer science, the king Saud University has approved on 1402/1403 H. to start two study programs in this field which are; computer science program under the college of science and computer engineering under college of engineering.

  The two programs started and soon they become too popular with the increase of students enrolling in them, in which requires the two programs to get bigger and grow bigger. Hence, a special college’s staff committee has been formed. The committee had done a lot of studies to seek the best ways for delivering a high tech curriculum in computer science and engineering for the college, and it concluded the importance of establishing a college of computer science and technology and this conclusion to be revised by concerning committees. The committee also has researched and studied the right procedures to set curriculums and syllabuses for different department for the new college.

The Royal Decree under the number 7/1558/m in 19.5/1404 H was issued to establish the college of computer science for the King Saud University so that the college will be supported financially, administratively and academically like the other colleges in the university; an approval is issued to the college to start enrolling student on 1404/1405 H.