The Computer Centre of University was inaugurated in 1990 by the Prime Minister of India. It was an outcome of the joint efforts of the University and the Defence Research and Development Organisation of the Government of India. From 1995 onwards the Computer Centre is being looked after completely by the University, within the administrative control of the Department of Computer Science.

The Center for Information Resource Management (CIRM) was established in 1998 at the Department of Computer Science with the help of the MHO-INFOCUS project of the Netherlands Government. In 2006, CIRM has been made an independent Centre with full fledged office.

CIRM provides Computing Hardware Assistance ,Website management, Internet & Intercom Monitoring & Maintenance, CUSAT Data Centre & E-Governance Assistance, Bio-Metric Data Storage & Helpdesk and ID Card Generation.

The main objective of CIRM is to act as the nodal centre for all the information technology resources of the university. The campus network is seamlessly integrated to the internet through broad band connectivity available to the user community on 24x7 basis.