Master of engineering combining computer science of South China Agricultural University was established in 1998 and enrolled Computer Applications specialized graduates under Management Science and Engineering, the First Level Discipline. It was authorized to confer Master's Degree for the Secondary Discipline of Computer Application and Technology in 2003. Later in 2010, it was authorized to confer Master's Degree for the First Level Discipline of Computer Science and Technology, and Professional Master's Degree for Master of Engineering in Computer Technology (MECT).

MECT is professional master's degree combing computer technology with engineering. Our graduate students are cultivated to be application-oriented and composite high-tech engineering technology and engineering management talents with solid basic knowledge, all-round quality, engineering practical ability and certain innovative ability.

MECT focuses on the key technology issues of computer's development and takes advantages of the combination with Electronic Information Technology. Its research direction covers Cybersecurity, Computer Vision, Software Engineering, Computer Network and Intelligent Information Processing.

The faculty of MECT is composed of 40 master supervisors, including 20 professors, 15 associate professors and 5 lecturers.

MECT owns good reputation among many prestigious IT enterprises, and each year, quite a few students take the job and become core technicians of these enterprises including Huawei, Ali, Baidu, Tencent, Google, Microsoft and IBM, etc.