The department of Electronics and Communication, J.K.Institute of Applied Physics and Technology is located in the campus of science faculty of the University of Allahabad. Its foundation stone was laid by Late Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, on April 14, 1949 and it was formally inaugurated by him on April 4, 1956. J.K. Charitable Trust contributed for the construction of the complete building structure of the institute. It is a pioneer department in the country for teaching and research in the disciplines of Electronics and Communication and Computer Science.

The department conducts courses in the fields of Electronics and Communication and Computer Science leading up to the undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and D.Phil. program as well. From the year 2008, the institute has adopted 4 year degree course pattern and is inducting the students through AIEEE. The undergraduate course in Computer Science was started in 1982 and the post graduate course in Computer Science was started in the year 1986. The defense Research and Development organization (DRDO) had selected the institute as a center of Manpower development in the area of Computer Science through which the students were inducted as Scientist B in their organizations up to 1992. After 1992, M.Sc. Computer Science program has been taken over as UGC program.