The PPGI offers master's and doctoral courses, and has qualified faculty in the areas of Computer Systems and Fundamentals and Methods of Computing. The areas of concentration and research lines are:

Computer Systems: Cloud Computing, Distributed and High-Performance Computing, Mobile Computing, Traffic Engineering in Optical Networks, Image and Video Processing, Distributed Systems, and Computer Vision.

Fundamentals and Methods of Computing: Database, Bioinformatics, Dependability, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Software Product Lines, Non-Classical Logics, Speech Modeling, Multi-Agent Systems, and Theory of Computation.

The PPGI is the only Computer Science program with a grade 5 rating from Capes in the Midwest Region

(see list of evaluated and recognized courses on the Capes Sucupira Platform).