The department of information and network technologies was created at the ICS faculty in 1993 as the department of optimization and information technologies.

The main activity field of the department of information and network technologies is determined by the general area of the ICS faculty work and specializations established at the faculty. The department trains highly qualified specialists in the field of applied information science in economy, applied mathematics and information science and the use and improvement of modern information technologies.

The main priorities that define the area of department works are the satisfaction of growing demand for qualified specialists in the field of data sciences, applications of information science in economy, finances, management of development, investigation and operation of computing and program complexes, which process information in computer networks, and the management of their safety.

The department participates in the realization of a multi-level system of training specialists at the faculty of information and computer science. It graduates students specializing in Applied Information Science (in economy), participates in the training of bachelors, specialists and masters in Applied Mathematics and Information Science and Fundamental Information Science and Information Technologies, within a framework of which the professors of the department give lectures on programming, statistics, methods of optimization, economics and Internet entrepreneurship.