Students in the Computer and Information Science program at College of San Mateo are trained on PCs and Macs and receive instruction and experience in areas such as programming, data science and Big Data, Web and mobile application development, applications development, internet programming, database programming, and DevOps methodology.

This training is intended to lead to employment in the computing industry, or transfer to a baccalaureate institution for continued study in the field, and also provides advanced study for computing professionals.